Causes of Chepan students low achievement in mathematics
Date
2019
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Department of Mathematics Education
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.
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Chepan students, School curriculum