Open AccessMathematics Students’ Ability in Understanding Text
Author(s) -
Hapipi,
Syahrul Azmi,
Wahidaturrahmi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of educational and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2239-978X
pISSN - 2240-0524
DOI - 10.36941/jesr-2021-0052
Subject(s) - reading (process) , mathematics education , stratified sampling , point (geometry) , psychology , sampling (signal processing) , mathematics , computer science , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , geometry , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
This study aims to obtain a description of the students’ ability in understanding text. To achieve the objective, the study selected 216 mathematics students in a proportionate stratified random sampling. The students were asked to answer questions from a text that was designed and validated by a linguist. The samples were asked to fill out a questionnaire. The results show that there was a relationship between the length of studying mathematics (semester level) and the student’s ability to understand the idea of a text, the ability to determine conclusions from the given text, and the student’s ability to determine the relationships of paragraphs. This study also found that factors such as Grade Point Average (GPA), reading habits, and reading preferences cannot be assumed to have correlations with students’ ability to understand texts.
Received: 15 February 2021 / Accepted: 29 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021