The Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Translating Skills in Multiple Representations

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine translating skills of teacher candidates between verbal, table,
physical context and graphical representations. The sample of this study was 76 primary teacher candidates. An
achievement test focusing on the multiple representations was devised. The candidates were asked to explain their
answers for the whole test. The results of the study indicated that while the translation from verbal to graphical is the
field in which the teacher candidates were the most successful, the translation from physical context to graphical was
the field they were least successful. The candidates were more successful at determining the right graph among others
than they were at constructing a graph. Also, they couldn’t give scientific explanations for their answers.