The influences of math anxiety and math attitudes towards math achievement among cognitive science student of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

• Main Author: Siti Noormaizhatul Hasnidah, binti Osman
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12203/1/Siti%20Noormaizhatul%20%2824pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12203/4/Siti%20Noormaizhatul%20%28fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12203/

The aim of this research is to examine the mathematic anxiety and mathematic attitudes towards mathematic achievement. About 150 students of Cognitive Science in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak were chosen to contribute in this research. The instrument used in this research the questionnaire proposed by Martha Tapia (1996) for mathematic attitudes and the mathematics anxiety by Wigfield and Meece (1998). The distribution of this instrument was done by using simple random sampling technique. The questionnaire consisted of several items, which are demographic, math anxiety component and math attitudes component. This research also used several statistical analysis methods, which were, t-test, ANOVA test, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression test. The main finding of this research showed there is a significant relationship of math anxiety and math achievement and also there is a significant relationship between math attitudes and math achievement and the math attitudes is the biggest factor that contributes to student math achievement.