| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士在職專班 === 100 === The purposes of the study are to analyze the correlation between Chinese reading ability (character recognition and reading comprehension) and mathematical ability (procedural knowledge test and problem solving test) for the seventh graders in Taiwan, and to investigate the difference in mathematical ability between the students with different Chinese reading abilities. The participants of study were 129 seventh graders with 64 males and 65 females. The main findings of this research are:
(1) There is a significant difference between male and female students in character recognition, but there were no significant differences in reading comprehension, procedural knowledge test and problem solving test.
(2) The performance of students with different Chinese reading abilities showed significant differences in procedural knowledge and problem solving. By comparing group performance, the high level group performed better than the middle and low level groups, and the middle level group performed better than the low level group.
(3) There was a significantly positive correlation between Chinese reading ability (character recognition and reading comprehension) and mathematical ability (procedural knowledge and problem solving ) between all tests.
(4) For the part of procedural knowledge, a significant prediction was only found for character recognition after controlling the factors of age and intelligence of the seventh graders; for the part of problem solving, both character recognition and reading comprehension showed significant prediction with a higher effect of character recognition than reading comprehension, which showed character recognition has its own influence on problem solving.
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