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Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students

It is widely documented that mathematics anxiety is one of the factors that influence the learning of mathematics. Mathematical anxiety can cause one to forget and loose mathematics confidence. In this paper we investigate the predicting role of mathematics anxiety components on mathematics confiden...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Zaleha, Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah, Firouzian, Fariba, Firouzian, Soheila
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Published: American Scientific Publishers 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60398/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6290
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spelling my.utm.603982021-07-27T08:49:45Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60398/ Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students Ismail, Zaleha Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah Firouzian, Fariba Firouzian, Soheila QA Mathematics It is widely documented that mathematics anxiety is one of the factors that influence the learning of mathematics. Mathematical anxiety can cause one to forget and loose mathematics confidence. In this paper we investigate the predicting role of mathematics anxiety components on mathematics confidence among fresh engineering students. The research population consisted of students who are studying civil, electronic and mechanical engineering at Bahonar University of Kerman. A total of 182 first year engineering students were selected from the population by multi-stage clustered sampling. A survey questionnaire to measure math anxiety and math confidence was distributed to collect quantitative data. The results show that two mathematics anxiety components, namely mathematics anxiety evaluation and social mathematics anxiety contribute significantly in predicting mathematics confidence. American Scientific Publishers 2015 Article PeerReviewed Ismail, Zaleha and Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah and Firouzian, Fariba and Firouzian, Soheila (2015) Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students. Advanced Science Letters, 21 (21). pp. 2239-2242. ISSN 1936-6612 http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6290 DOI: 10.1166/asl.2015.6290
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topic QA Mathematics
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Ismail, Zaleha
Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah
Firouzian, Fariba
Firouzian, Soheila
Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
description It is widely documented that mathematics anxiety is one of the factors that influence the learning of mathematics. Mathematical anxiety can cause one to forget and loose mathematics confidence. In this paper we investigate the predicting role of mathematics anxiety components on mathematics confidence among fresh engineering students. The research population consisted of students who are studying civil, electronic and mechanical engineering at Bahonar University of Kerman. A total of 182 first year engineering students were selected from the population by multi-stage clustered sampling. A survey questionnaire to measure math anxiety and math confidence was distributed to collect quantitative data. The results show that two mathematics anxiety components, namely mathematics anxiety evaluation and social mathematics anxiety contribute significantly in predicting mathematics confidence.
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author Ismail, Zaleha
Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah
Firouzian, Fariba
Firouzian, Soheila
author_facet Ismail, Zaleha
Mohammad Yusof, Yudariah
Firouzian, Fariba
Firouzian, Soheila
author_sort Ismail, Zaleha
title Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
title_short Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
title_full Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
title_fullStr Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
title_full_unstemmed Relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
title_sort relationship of mathematics anxiety and mathematics confidence among engineering students
publisher American Scientific Publishers
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60398/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6290
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