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A study on relationship between achievement in mathematics and attitude towards mathematics of secondary school students’

Monoranjan Bhowmik, Bharati Banerjee (Roy)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v4.n3.p7
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate high school students’ attitude towards mathematics and achievement in mathematics. For this purpose, the methodology employed in this study was a descriptive type. The participants of this study consisted of 394 secondary (class ten) students from six different high schools. The Mathematics Attitude Scale and Mathematics achievement questioner developed and standardized by the authors. The data was quantitatively analysed by using independent samples t-tests and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (0.05 significant level) using SPSS software. Findings showed that in gender difference there had significant difference on the students’ attitude towards mathematics, though there is not so significant difference in achievement in mathematics. Also there is a significant positive correlation between attitude towards mathematics and achievement in mathematics.

Keywords
Mathematics, Attitude, Academic achievement, Gender, School type
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