The content knowledge about rhombus of Turkish and slovak pre-service elementary teachers [2017]

Abstract

This particular research is a comparative study where the similarities and differences of geometry content knowledge between Slovak and Turkish pre-service teachers focusing on rhombus are examined. This research was conducted on total 144 preservice teachers with a quadrilateral test. The paper summarizes the similarities and differences in terminology and categorization of quadrilaterals in Slovak and Turkish curriculum. Subsequently the analysis is presented focusing on rhombus and the results are discussed. Moreover, a few significant differences within two groups were indicated by the results such as decreased ability to distinguish relationships between rhombus and square. Furthermore, an important finding in this research suggests that Slovak preservice teachers consider these shapes as a two entirely disjoint sets compared to Turkish preservice teachers for whom the differences are much more identifiable.