The Development of a Test Paper for Spatial Concept Core Literacy Based on Compulsory Education Mathematics Curriculum Standards

Abstract

In the context of the construction of the Compulsory Education Mathematics Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition), China's junior middle school mathematics teaching emphasizes the core literacy orientation, and the implementation of spatial conceptual literacy, as one of the main manifestations of junior middle school mathematical core literacy, has attracted a lot of attention, but how can we assess whether students have mastered the spatial conceptual literacy? How to quantify the level of spatial conceptual literacy of middle school students? This problem still has no good way to solve. Based on this, this paper analyzes the meaning, dimensions and performance of spatial conceptual literacy based on the curriculum standards, and refers to the steps of test preparation in  Zezhong Yang's book Measurement and Evaluation in Mathematics Education, to design a set of test papers for junior high school students' spatial conceptual literacy level around the theme of spatial conceptual literacy, with a view to evaluating the spatial conceptual literacy level of the students through quantitative methods. The test consists of 10 questions, which are strictly in accordance with the requirements for spatial conceptual literacy in the curriculum standards, and the difficulty and gradient are reasonably designed, with the aim of providing an effective reference for the quantitative assessment of junior high school students' spatial conceptual literacy.