Comparative Study of Private and Government Secondary School Students' Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Their Achievement: The Case of Adama City
| dc.contributor.advisor | Areaya, Solomon (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tefera, Kebede | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-16T12:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-10T14:45:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-16T12:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-10T14:45:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to compare private and government school students' attitudes toward mathematics and their achievement in the first cycle secondary (Grades 9-10) schools in Adama city. One hundred ninetyseven subjects (99 males and 98 females) were randomly selected from one government and one private school in Adama city. An attitude scale and mathematics achievement tests were employed to gather the data. Analysis of t-test and Pearson correlation were employed on the data. The results indicate that there is a significant (p <0.05) difference in attitudes toward mathematics between private and government first cycle secondary school students in favor of government, but there IS no significant (p>0.05) difference in attitudes toward mathematics between male and female students. Similarly, there isa significant (p <0.05) difference in mathematics achievement between private and government first cycle secondary school students in favor of private school s tudents, and als o a significant (p<0.05) difference was found in mathematics achievement between male and f emale students in favor of males. In the case of comparing students' attitudes and mathematics achievement, positive but very low correlation (r=0.14) was observed in the first cycle secondary school. This, however, does not mean that there is statistically significant correlation between attitudes toward mathematics and mathematics achievement. That is why the government school stude nts have positive attitudes, but lower achievement than that of private school students while private school students have negative attitudes, but higher achie vement than that of government school students. It was thus concluded that government school students have better attitudes toward mathematics than the private school students, while private school students have better achievement in mathematics than those of the government school students. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/15793 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Comparative Study of Private | en_US |
| dc.title | Comparative Study of Private and Government Secondary School Students' Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Their Achievement: The Case of Adama City | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |