Presentation
Inferring impulsive-analytic disposition from written responses
Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
(2010)
Abstract
Impulsive disposition refers to one’s proclivity to spontaneously proceed with an action that comes to mind without checking its relevance. Analytic disposition refers to one’s proclivity to analyze a problem situation and establishes a goal to guide one’s actions. An instrument, called the likelihood-to-act survey, was developed to measure students’ impulsive-analytic disposition. In this study, we sought to test and refine this instrument by analyzing 92 participants’ written responses to open-ended questions that were adapted from items in the likelihood-to-act survey. We found relatively strong correlations between participants’ disposition scores for written responses and those from the likelihood-to-act survey.
Keywords
- Likelihood-to-act,
- Impulsive disposition,
- Analytic Disposition,
- Problem-solving,
- Written Responses
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2010
Citation Information
Kien H Lim and Miguel Mendoza. "Inferring impulsive-analytic disposition from written responses" Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kien_lim/21/