Attitudes of Teachers and Students Towards Letter Grading System in S.L.C

Abstract

This is a survey research related to find the attitudes of teachers and students towards letter grading system. This is quantitative type research. The sample of this study consisted of 30 mathematics teachers and 180 students selected randomly from the six public school of Kathmandu district. A set of questionnaire entitled "likert Attitude scale" was the tools for collecting data. The questionnaire consists of 20 statements for teachers and 30 statements for students. These questionnaires consist different aspects of letter grading such as student’s attitudes towards grading system, educational management, implementations of letter grading system and students output in letter grading system also daily behavioral uses, uses for higher study, difficulty of learning, the place of mathematics in society. The collected data were organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using the statistical tools such as percentage, mean, standard deviation, 2-test and t-test. The 2-test was employed to find out the attitude of students and t-test was used to compare the attitude of teachers and students at 0.05 level of significance. The result of this study indicated that the secondary level students and teachers had positive attitude towards letter grading system. But there was significance difference between mathematics teachers and student’s attitude towards letter grading system. Mean attitude score of students is significantly different that of mathematics teachers. Attitude of mathematics teachers is better than attitude of students towards letter grading system.