Assessing Malaysian Pre-University Students’ Visual Literacy Skills Using Rubric Based On Objective Questions Constructed

Abstract

This paper discusses the mathematical visual literacy skills among pre-university students in Malaysia. Students’ were tested on a set of mathematical visual literacy skills based on Avgerinou’s Visual Literacy Index. Before conducting the main study, researchers designed a proper scoring rubric to guide scoring students’ performance. An analytical scoring rubric was used and its suitability was defined throughout theprocess. It was found that students performed poorly in mathematical visual literacy skills when the set instrument has given was in structure format but showed some improvements when the questions were changed to objective format.