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Mathematics anxiety among engineering students and its relationship with achievement in calculus

Author(s) -

Sahabi Adamu Garba

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international journal of psychology and counselling

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2141-2499

DOI - 10.5897/ijpc2013.0219

Subject(s) - anxiety , calculus (dental) , mathematical anxiety , significant difference , achievement test , mathematics education , test (biology) , correlation , sample (material) , psychology , mathematics , clinical psychology , medicine , standardized test , dentistry , statistics , psychiatry , chemistry , geometry , paleontology , chromatography , biology

This paper analyzed the relationship between Mathematics Anxiety and Calculus Achievement among engineering students. The sample consists of 148 (116 males and 32 females) year one students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin, Kebbi. Pearson correlation, paired samples t-test and Independent sample t-test were used to analyze data using SPSS version 20.0. The results obtained showed that Mathematics anxiety has insignificant negative correlation with Calculus achievement. It was also gathered that gender difference in Mathematics anxiety is significant while gender difference in Calculus achievement is not significant. Females exhibit high anxiety than males. Key words: Mathematics anxiety, calculus, Mathematics performance, achievement.

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