Mathematics anxiety among engineering students and its relationship with achievement in calculus

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العنوان: Mathematics anxiety among engineering students and its relationship with achievement in calculus
المؤلفون: Garba Sahabi Adamu
المصدر: International Journal of Psychology and Counselling. 6:10-13
بيانات النشر: Academic Journals, 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics anxiety, education, High anxiety, Sample (statistics), medicine.disease, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, Developmental psychology, stomatognathic diseases, symbols.namesake, Paired samples, medicine, symbols, Calculus, Negative correlation, Psychology, Calculus (medicine)
الوصف: This paper analyzed the relationship between Mathematics Anxiety and Calculus Achievement among engineering students. The sample consists of 148 (116 males and 32 females) year one students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin, Kebbi. Pearson correlation, paired samples t-test and Independent sample t-test were used to analyze data using SPSS version 20.0. The results obtained showed that Mathematics anxiety has insignificant negative correlation with Calculus achievement. It was also gathered that gender difference in Mathematics anxiety is significant while gender difference in Calculus achievement is not significant. Females exhibit high anxiety than males. Key words: Mathematics anxiety, calculus, Mathematics performance, achievement.
تدمد: 2141-2499
الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::da98509ce4ef97de4f65363d190cc23eTest
https://doi.org/10.5897/ijpc2013.0219Test
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........da98509ce4ef97de4f65363d190cc23e
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE