COMPARISON OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THREE OPERATIONAL TASKS:: PERMUTATION, QUANTIFICATION OF PROBABILITIES AND HANOI TOWER

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues Martins Teixeira, Leny
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17081

The aim of the present research was to compare the performanceof subjects in the three operational tasks of Permutation, Quantification of Probabilities and Hanoi Tower applied to 60 high school students(both male and female), from the first, second and third grades (20in each group), ranging from 15 to 20 years of age. The performance ofthe subjects in the tasks was correlated to the mathematics average gradesobtained by the students during-the year. Comparing the three tasks,the subjects had a better performance in the Hanoi Tower Task eventhough the results were low regarding the level of formal operations in allthree tasks (around 50%). The male subjects performed significantly betteronly in the Quantification of Probabilities Task. There was no significantage difference in any of the tasks. Only in the Quantification of Probabilitiesand Hanoi Tower Tasks, there was a significant difference regardingthe schooling level, favoring the more advanced grades. Therewas no correlation between the performance of the subjects and Mathematicsgrades in any of the tasks.