Universal Journal of Educational Research Vol. 8(4), pp. 1445 - 1452
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.080437
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Investigation into First-Year College Students' Misconceptions about Limit Concept: A Case Study Based on Cognitive Style

Kamid , Khairul Anwar ^*, Syaiful , Sofnidar , Lita Liani , Wawan Kurniawan
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jambi University, Indonesia

ABSTRACT

The cognitive style has an important role in determining the characteristics of students on the conceptualization. One of the two types of cognitive styles are field independent (FI) and field dependent (FD). The purpose of this study was to identify the form of conceptual misconceptions about limit and their causes. This type of research is a case study. The data was obtained through interviews based on the conceptual problem-solving tasks. Correspondents used in this study were from first-year college students (95 people) who were studied at Universitas Jambi. The results showed that (1) FI forms of students' misconceptions, namely: misconceptions about interpreting the concept of function limit and function conditions which have limits, such as: left limit and right limit. This problem occurred due to incomplete reasoning and wrong intuition. The other result of this research was to obtain (2) FD forms of students' misconception, namely, (a) misconceptions about prerequisite material: drawing graphs of functions, misconceptions about determining the domain of a function, misconceptions about definitions and forms of function notations, misconceptions about determining function values on function graphs (b) misconceptions about the concept of limits: misconceptions about interpreting the concept of limits in a function, the function requirements (left limit, right limit) and misconceptions about understanding the meaning which is close to the limit function (limit-x) approaching infinity.

KEYWORDS
Cognitive Style, Field Independent and Field Dependent, Limit Concept, Misconceptions, Mathematics Education

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Kamid , Khairul Anwar , Syaiful , Sofnidar , Lita Liani , Wawan Kurniawan , "Investigation into First-Year College Students' Misconceptions about Limit Concept: A Case Study Based on Cognitive Style," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1445 - 1452, 2020. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.080437.

(b). APA Format:
Kamid , Khairul Anwar , Syaiful , Sofnidar , Lita Liani , Wawan Kurniawan (2020). Investigation into First-Year College Students' Misconceptions about Limit Concept: A Case Study Based on Cognitive Style. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(4), 1445 - 1452. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.080437.