A Study on Attitude of Gurung Students Towards Mathematics in Secondary Level and it's Relationship with their Achievement

Abstract

The prime concern of this study is to declare "A study on the attitude of Gurung students towards mathematics and it's relationship with their achievement". The following objectives were formulated for this study: • To find the attitude of Gurung students towards mathematics in secondary level. • To compare attitude and achievement of Gurung students in mathematics in secondary level. • To determine the relationship between attitude and achievement of Gurug students towards mathematics in secondary level.

For this study the researcher had selected eight schools of Kaski district by using stratified random sampling. On this study, the researcher had taken the sample schools from four election region of Kaski district. Two schools were selected from each election region by simple random sampling method. From election region first, second, third, and fourth 58, 100, 27, 67 students were selected respectively from sampled schools by simple random sampling method . Altogether, there were 58+100+27+67 = 252 sample Gurung students who were reading in class 9 and 10. To fulfill the objectives of this study the required primary data are collected through the questionnaire developed by George Levine (1971 AD.) There were 32 statements with comprised four aspects of mathematics such as i) Views about mathematics teaching ii) Attitudes toward mathematics as a process iii) Attitudes about difficulty of learning mathematics. iv) Attitude towards the place of mathematics in society.

The attitude of students providing five categories of rating scale are as strongly Agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree and Strongly disagree. The rating score for the positive statements were 5, 4, 3, 4, 1 in favour of Strongly Agree, Agree Undecided, Disagree, Strongly Disagree respectively. Similarly for each negative statements score 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were given in favour of strongly agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree, Strongly disagree respectively. For achievement score of the Gurung students in mathematics researcher, used their annual exam report 2067BS of respective schools. The percentage, mean, standard deviation, and correlation co-efficient were used as statistical tools for the analysis and interpretation of the data. The researcher used t-test at 0.05 level of significance to compare attitudes and achievement of Gurung students towards mathematics as well as to determine relationship between attitude and achievement score of Gurung students towards mathematics. The following conclusions were found in this study as follows. 1) Gurung students have positive attitudes towards mathematics at secondary level. 2) There is significant differences between attitudes and achievement of Gurung students towards mathematics in secondary level. There is no relation between Gurung students' attitudes and achievement towards mathematics in secondary level