Cognitive activation through mathematics tasks in the context of centralised examinations on ISCED 2 Level, using the example of North-Rhine Westphalia

This study analyses the cognitive activation through mathematics tasks in the context of the centralised examination- Zentrale Pr¨ufung 10 (ZP 10) – administered in North-Rhine Westphalia. Cognitive activation, here, is understood as being one characteristic within a range of curricular, content-related and cognitive categories that can potentially be activated in the course of the solution process of a given task. Here, it is fundamental to first consider obligatory curricular standards as well as to categorise mathematics tasks in terms of their function. This first section is then followed by the analysis of the cognitive requirements of the complete set of test tasks used between 2007 (introduction of ZP 10) and 2016 (N = 1706).