Attitude of Secondary Level Mathematics Teachers Towards Action Research

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to find out the attitude of secondary level mathematics teachers towards action research in teaching learning activitiesin mathematics. Itwas also aimed to find the teachers' experience on action research. This is the descriptive survey type study. So, this seems quantitative as well as qualitative. To fulfill the objectives of the study corresponding hypothesis were formulated. Questionnaire and semi structured interview wereapplied to gathered the data for this study and collected data were analyzed by the theory of Bonner assumption. A set of questionnaire with 28 statements about action research and five questions for interview were developed as the tools. The questionnaire was distributed to 40 secondary level mathematics teacher of public school in Baglung District and five teachers were interviewed.The data collected from questionnaire were analyzed by usingt-test, arithmetic mean, standarddeviation and percentage in the basis of Bonner assumption. Thet-test was applied at 5% levelof significance and 39, (N-1) degree of freedom. The interviewed data were analyzed indescriptive waybased on respondents. After the analysis and interpretation of collected data, the researcher found that there was positive attitude of secondary level mathematics teacher towards action research in teaching learning activities in mathematics. Teacher experienced action research as important tools to solve classroom problem but they conduct action research only sometimes. Mainly teachers conduct action research when the administration makes it compulsory. The teacher-training program and workshop should be organized for effectiveness of action research.