Number line estimation and standardized test performance: The left digit effect does not predict SAT math score
| Autor: | Joanna Paul, Katherine Williams, Alexandra Zax, Hilary Barth, Andrea L. Patalano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Numerical cognition Standardized test left digit effect 050105 experimental psychology lcsh:RC321-571 Task (project management) Numeral system Number line 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Statistics Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences numerical cognition Students lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Original Research Mathematics business.industry 05 social sciences Cognition Replicate number line estimation Achievement standardized achievement tests Numerical digit business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Brain and Behavior, Vol 10, Iss 12, Pp n/a-n/a (2020) Brain and Behavior |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/uazr5 |
| Popis: | Introduction Recent work reveals a new source of error in number line estimation (NLE), the left digit effect (Lai, Zax, et al., 2018), whereby numerals with different leftmost digits but similar magnitudes (e.g., 399, 401) are placed farther apart on a number line (e.g., 0 to 1,000) than is warranted. The goals of the present study were to: (1) replicate the left digit effect, and (2) assess whether it is related to mathematical achievement. Method Participants were all individuals (adult college students) who completed the NLE task in the laboratory between 2014 and 2019 for whom SAT scores were available (n = 227). Results We replicated the left digit effect but found its size was not correlated with SAT math score, although it was negatively correlated with SAT verbal score for one NLE task version. Conclusions These findings provide further evidence that individual digits strongly influence estimation performance and suggest that this effect may have different cognitive contributors, and predict different complex skills, than overall NLE accuracy. We replicate the recently discovered left digit effect in number line estimation. Unlike overall accuracy, the left digit effect is not correlated with math achievement, suggesting a different cognitive source. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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