Low Achievement in Mathematics of Chepang Students
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Faculty of Education mathematics
Abstract
The 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 three
boys and one girl from grade five of Shree Kabilas Higher Secondary School, Bharatpur
Metropolitan-29 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.
This study showed that there were different causes of low achievement in
mathematics subject of Chepangs students such as social context, peer, family, culture,
self-efficiency, practices, expectation, attitude and thought which were belong to
environmental, behavior and cognitive factors.