Attitudes towards Mathematics: Effects of Individual, Motivational, and Social Support Factors

The Effects of Contextual and Individual Level Factors on Chinese Adults' Attitudes towards Social Environments.

Using data from the nationally representative China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we describe Chinese adults' attitudes towards three specific aspects of social environments: local government performance, severity of major social issues, and social trust. We further explore how county level contextual factors and personal experiences relate to subjective social environments, while controlling fo...

Effects of modern educational game play on attitudes towards mathematics, mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics achievement

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

leadership styles of tefl instructors at gilan university and their effects on the students attitudes and motivation

the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

Affective and motivational factors of learning in online mathematics courses

We investigated what factors would be related to students’ achievement in mathematics courses offered at a virtual high school. This was an attempt to understand why some succeed and some do not as well as to suggest what should be done to help with student success. Seventy-two students responded to a self-report survey on motivation (ie, selfefficacy, intrinsic value), mathematics achievement ...