Students’ Perception towards Semester System in Mathematics Education

Abstract

This is a survey type research entitled students'perception towards the semester system in mathematics education. The objective of this research is to find out the students' perception towards semester system in mathematics education. The sample of the study consists of 65 mathematics students selected randomly from Tribhuvan Universitykirtipur. A set of questionnaire entitled “likert attitude scale” was the tools for collection data. The questionnaire consists of 42 statements for students. Thesequestionnaires consist of different aspects perceptions towards the semester system of curriculum, learning resource, use of ICT, students' satisfaction, and future existence of semester system. The collected data were organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using the statistical tools such as, percentage, mean, standard deviation was employed to find out the perception of students towards the semester system. The result of this study indicated that the university students had positive attitude toward the semester system and foundthat there is no significance difference between the students perception of curriculum, learning resources, use of ICT etc. Researcher had tried to find out the students satisfaction level of semester system. So the perception in the average is positive towards the semester system.