Cholis Sa'Dijah, Dona Afriyani, Subanji, Makbul Muksar, Lathiful Anwar
The aims of this study is to find out the way in assesing students' pseudo-mathematical translation using translation-verification models and the characteristics of students' pseudo-mathematical translation are. This research is qualitative descriptive. Fifty-one students majoring in mathematics involved in think-aloud and interviews while solving the mathematical translation task. Data are collected and coded using rubrics containing translation activity indicators developed based on the translation-verification model. Based on the results of the assessment of the students' response using the rubric, it's obtained that the characteristics of pseudo-mathematical translation indicated by students' behavior is correctly construct the target representation of the source representation but cannot provide related verification: source and target representation attribute, conformity of connections between source and target representation attributes, representative equivalence of source and target representation. These findings can help educators recognize the weaknesses of mathematical translation and develop learning strategies to make the students' meaningful mathematical translations. © 2018 Author(s).
Department of Mathematics Education, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jl. Semarang 5, Malang, 65145, Indonesia; Department of Mathematics Education, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Batusangkar, Jl. Sudirman 137, Batusangkar, 27127, Indonesia
