Attitude of Master Level Students towards ICT in Mathematics Education

Abstract

This study is based on mixeddesignentitled“Attitude of Master Level Students TowardsICT in Mathematics Education.”The purpose of thisresearch isto findthe attitude of master level students towards ICT in mathematics education and tocompare the attitude between boy’s andgirl’sstudents towards ICT in mathematics education. The sample of the study consisted from Tribhuvan UniversityKirtipur, Kathmandu.The data were collected fromquestionnaireand interview.Altogether 100 students wereconsidered as the sample (85 boys and 15 girls) by random sampling strategy.For this, a set of questionnaire was developed as the tool.To collectthe data from interview guideline four students were selectedusingpurposive sampling method. The attitude of students measured in the five categories rating scale of Likert. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed by using SPSS software to get thevalue of statistics χ 2 -test, percentage, mean and standard deviationand t-testfor objective first and second respectively. The findings,mean value ofboy’sstudents is 301.18 andgirls students is54.18.In the comparisonof boys andgirl’sattitudet-valueof thestatements was6.31whichdoes not lie its tabulated value 1.96. So, alternate hypothesis is rejected. This shows that there is significance difference between the attitude ofboy’sstudents and girls students. The study concluded thatthere is a positive attitude towards ICT in mathematics education and significance difference between the attitude ofboy’s andgirl’sstudents towards ICT in mathematics education.It is also concludedthat there is well designed course, sufficient materials and equipment’s in ICT lab,effective learning activities, goodinternet access and evaluation system of ICT in mathematics education.