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\itemau{Garcia Garcia, Grecia; Cox, Richard}
\itemti{``Graph-as-picture'' misconceptions in young students.}
\itemso{Goel, Ashok K. (ed.) et al., Diagrammatic representation and inference. 6th international conference, Diagrams 2010, Portland, OR, USA, August 9--11, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-14599-5/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6170. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 310-312 (2010).}
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Summary: This paper presents work on the relatively under-researched topic of children's graphical knowledge. It extends Janvier's [1] research on the graph-as-picture misconception (GAPm, e.g. interpreting a line graph as the picture of a mountain) by identifying the prevalence of GAPm in a younger population and by examining gender differences. We used an established method for identifying GAPm and non-GAPm individuals and we also investigated the behaviour of these two groups of students on a diagram/picture decision task designed to provide insights into how students mentally represent their graphical knowledge. One in four of the students studied showed evidence of possessing a GAPm, with a higher prevalence in boys than in girls.
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\itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8\_38}
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