Undergraduate Students’ Conceptual Understanding on Abstract Algebra

Risnanosanti, Yuriska Destania

2018

Abstract

This study aims to describe students’ conceptual understanding on abstract algebra at mathematics education study program. The concept of binary and group operations is a fundamental issue in abstract algebra. This current study is a qualitative research that aims to determine level of students’ understanding. Subjects of the study were students of mathematics education study program of semester 7 who were taking course of algebra structure in academic year of 2017/2018. The data were collected by using two instruments; test and interviews. After the data obtained then it was categorized into appropriate levels of understanding of students. The categories used in this study are the low, medium and high level of conceptual understanding. Based on the results of data analysis, the result of study indicates that more than 50% of students still have low level of understanding. It can be concluded that there are still many students who lack of conceptual understanding on binary and group operations. Students define binary and group operations based solely on their current knowledge. Therefore, there must be a special action done by lecturers to connect the concepts learned with it precondition concepts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Risnanosanti. and Destania Y. (2018). Undergraduate Students’ Conceptual Understanding on Abstract Algebra.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs, ISBN 978-989-758-407-7, pages 438-443. DOI: 10.5220/0008523304380443

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmis18,
author={Risnanosanti and Yuriska Destania},
title={Undergraduate Students’ Conceptual Understanding on Abstract Algebra},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,},
year={2018},
pages={438-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008523304380443},
isbn={978-989-758-407-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,
TI - Undergraduate Students’ Conceptual Understanding on Abstract Algebra
SN - 978-989-758-407-7
AU - Risnanosanti.
AU - Destania Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 438
EP - 443
DO - 10.5220/0008523304380443