Mental Image and Representation of Ogive by Students of Diploma in Accountancy in a Mara Institute of Higher Education

The study based on radical constructivism seeks to identify Semester Two Accounting Courses students’ mental images and representations of ogive. Data for this study include verbal and non verbal information gathered from two students of Semester Two Accounting Courses in two clinical interview sessions. This study has identified four properties showed by the mental image of the research participants. In addition, four types of representations used by research participants to describe the ogive were identified. Participants used three methods to identify whether something represents an ogive or not.