Causes of Chepan students low achievement in mathematics

Abstract

This is the case study research related to find out the causes of low achievement in mathematics subject of chepang student. The main object of this study was to find out the Causes of Low Achievement in Mathematics subject of Chepang Students at grade five. This was a case study of Chepang students which qualitative in nature. All the Chepang students including four boys and one girl from grade five of Shree Basic Level Govindabasti School, Madi Municipality-9 were taken in this study. The researcher selected two parents on the comparison of economic background as well as math teacher and principal as respondents in this study. The researcher interviewed with case students who were low achiever in mathematics subject and also the interview was extended to their parents, math teacher and principal. Classroom observation was done by observing environmental aspect, behavior and cognitive aspects of case students in classroom. The researcher collected written documents from the school administration concern case students. Those collected information were analyzed in the conceptual frameworks on the basis of social cognitive theory and empirical literature. After the collecting the data from use of primary and secondary tools. This study showed that there were different causes of low achievement in mathematics subject of Chepangs students such as social context, peer group, family, culture, self- efficiency, practices, expectation, attitude and thought which were belong to environmental, behavior and cognitive factors.