Análisis didáctico-matemático de un error algebraico en estudiantes y profesores

La investigación tiene dos fases: 1) Se plantea a los estudiantes de primer ingreso a la Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, México la simplificación de la expresión algebraica ; analizándose las respuestas equivocadas con su posible origen. 2) Se hace un estudio con 7 profesores de educación media básica y media superior, en el cual, se les presenta la simplificación errónea (a la izq.) con la consigna de mencionar el origen del error y cómo le ayudarían al alumno. Alumnos cometen errores de muy diverso origen, y los profesores encuestados no siempre analizan a profundidad el origen del error cometido por este alumno.

Components of error of maps from remotely sensed images

The concept of a “true” ground-truth map is introduced, from which the inaccuracy/error of any production map may be measured. A partition of the mapped region is defined in terms of the “residual rectification” transformation. Geometric RMS-type and Geometric Distortion error criteria are defined as well as a map mis-classification error criterion (the latter for hard and fuzzy produc-tion maps). The total map error is defined to be the sum (over each set of the map partition men-tioned above) of these three error components integrated over each set of the partition.

Tourism is it the ‘new’ driver for regeneration?

Article explores how tourism might be the key driver to urban regeneration in towns and cities as economic crisis deepens.

Reply to comment: is climate change the most likely driver of range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters?

The comment by Votier et al. (2008) on our recently published article (Wynn et al. 2007) contains two main criticisms: (i) that our analytical approach is inappropriate and (ii) that we have failed to acknowledge other factors that may have contributed to the change in Balearic Shearwater numbers recorded throughout northwest European waters. We strongly disagree with both these criticisms.

Keeping a sense of proportion but losing all perspective: a critique of Gorard's notion of the 'Politician's Error'

In 1999 Stephen Gorard published an article in this journal in which he provided a trenchant critique of what he termed the `politician's error' in analysing differences in educational attainment. The main consequence of this error, he argued, has been the production of misleading findings in relation to trends in educational performance over time that have, in turn, led to misguided and potentially damaging policy interventions. By using gender differences in educational attainment as a case study, this article begins by showing how Gorard's notion of the politician's error has been largely embraced and adopted uncritically by those within the field. However, the article goes on to demonstrate how Gorard's own preferred way of analysing such differences – by calculating and comparing proportionate changes in performance between groups – is also inherently problematic and can lead to the production of equally misleading findings. The article will argue that there is a need to develop a more reliable and valid way of measuring trends in educational performance over time and will show that one of the simplest ways of doing this is to make use of existing, and widely accepted, measures of effect size.