Assessment of Students’ Mathematical Proof Comprehension: Gender and Year Level Background

The ability to understanding proof is essential before students can write their proof. A literature study shows a few interests in investigating the students' knowledge from reading proof. This study aims to assess students' comprehension when they were reading proof using a developed instrument based on the previous study on the same field. Three groups of students from a different level of years from a preservice teacher training program in an Indonesian university are taken as the participants. This paper reports the preliminary finding of students' comprehension score comparison by gender and year level. Further analysis also involved the correlation of students' basic knowledge to their comprehension scores.