Students’ Attitude Toward Mathematics: The Use of Factor Analysis in Determining the Criteria
By N. F. Tahar, Zuriati Ismail, Nur Diana Zamani, N. Adnan. 2010
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine the criteria and subcriteria that considered important in measuring students’ attitude toward mathematics. Factor analysis was carried out to identify the groups among criterion. There were 746 respondents involved in the survey at UiTM Johor. The targeted respondents are first semester diploma students taking various programs related to business studies. Finding shows that there were five criterion that influenced students attitude toward mathematics namely interest in mathematics, 6 subcriteria for anxiety toward mathematics, 5 subcriteria for self efficacy, 3 subcriteria for extrinsic motivation and 2 subcriteria for students’ self concept. From the analysis, it shows that total percentage of variation explained is 58.28% and with 0.888 Cronbach's Alpha reliability test.
Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Learning environment and students' mathematics attitude (2012, background): “Unlike personality, experiences may affect attitude (Tesser, 1993). Several attempts have been made to point out the possibility of enhancing and modifying affective and attitudinal factors by curricular and instructional classroom practices. Papanastasiou (2008) demonstrated a positive association ”
- Secondary students’ attitude towards mathematics in a selected school of Maldives (2011, background): “Some of these factors include student‟s mathematical achievement score (Köğce et al, 2009), anxiety towards mathematics, student‟s self efficacy and self concept, extrinsic motivation (Tahar et al, 2010) and experiences at high school (Klein, 2004; Bobis & Cusworth, 1994).”