PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Research on Concept-based Instruction of Calculus
Page: 1648
This study, involving 254 college-level calculus students and 3 teachers, investigated the misunderstanding of concepts in calculus and designed concept-based instruction to help students understand concepts. Multiple achievement measures were used to determine the degree to which students from different instructional environments had mastered the concepts and the procedures. The midterm examination and the final examination results showed that the students enrolled in the concept-based learning environment scored higher than the students enrolled in the traditional learning environment and the investigation at the end of the semester showed that most of students like the concept-based learning environment.