Download or read book Effects on Students Self efficacy in a Mathematics Bridge Program written by Cristella Rivera Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beginning college students have historically struggled with both developmental and college-level mathematics. This study investigated whether students' self-efficacy for accomplishing mathematics tasks was increased after participating in a mathematics bridge program. The study also explored whether students gained more self-efficacy as a result of participating in an enhanced intervention designed to increase mathematics self-efficacy. Participants included 246 community college students placed into a developmental mathematics course and subsequently enrolled in the college's mathematics bridge program. The bridge program was designed to provide a one-week review session on high school mathematics topics with the goal of students placing into higher-level courses at the end of the session. A survey measuring mathematics self-efficacy was administered to participants both at the beginning and at the end of the bridge program in order to measure the change in math self-efficacy for each participant. The subsequent statistical analysis included a two-way mixed ANOVA focusing on effects of time, group (traditional intervention group or enhanced intervention group), and first-generation student status (first-generation, continuing-generation, or unknown) to examine if students experienced an increase in self-efficacy upon completion of the bridge program. Students provided open-ended responses to the question, "What did you find most helpful about the Math Refresher course?" A content analysis determined the themes that emerged from the data. Students had a significant increase in self-efficacy (p

Download or read book Tracking and Understanding At risk College Students Self efficacy in a Treatment Mathematics Course written by Lauren Renee Cavner Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students enrolled in developmental college courses generally have lower levels of self-efficacy than their counterparts, and this can negatively affect their course performance, motivation, and ability to graduate. The current study focuses on the effects of a treatment course in developmental algebra on students' self-efficacy in mathematics. This course is part of a program that assists students who place into developmental mathematics, English, and reading courses with additional supports and saving students time and money. The perceived effects of the treatment developmental algebra course on students' self-efficacy in mathematics was measured with a standard instrument (the Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale [MSES]), student journals, student interviews, student grades on course assessments, and the instructor's journal. The MSES was also administered to similar non-treatment students to offer further comparison. Data analysis determined that changes in self-efficacy occurred and were measurable, more so for the treatment group than the control group. Additional analysis points to the reasons that treatment students may attribute to these observed changes in self-efficacy which include opportunities of success and persistence through struggle, a course instructor who is inviting of questions and willing to help students, and peer support from the learning community. Further, data analysis illustrated the level of agreement between the results of the five data sources. Results of this analysis indicate that agreement generally existed between the data sources, but inclusion of journals potentially provides details about the student experience that might have otherwise been lost.

Download or read book The Effects of an Intervention on Students Math Self efficacy Practices and Achievement written by Melinda K. Ensinger and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of teaching mathematics is ever-changing. Amidst changes in pedagogy, curricula, and standards, what is most important is the belief that students can achieve high levels of math. Mathematical attainment is related to positive math self-efficacy and the use of mathematical practices. This experimental design study aimed to analyze the effects of a six-week intervention on students’ math self-efficacy, practices, and achievement in grades four through six. The following research questions guided the study: RQ1. What effect does the intervention have on students’ math self-efficacy? RQ2. What effect does the intervention have on students’ math practices? RQ3. What effect does the intervention have on students’ math achievement? RQ4. What other student variables moderate the effects of the intervention (i.e., gender, grade level, teacher)? Study results indicated that students in the intervention group reported higher than average gains on the MSE and the SMP than the control group. However, the higher gains on these two measures were not statistically significant. Additionally, the control group’s average increase on the STAR math assessment was higher than the intervention groups but also not statistically significant. These findings provide a practical application for teachers to improve students’ math self-efficacy but suggest additional studies to expand the body of research and the potential benefits of such interventions to math education, teachers, and students alike.

Download or read book The Effects of Student Self efficacy on Math Performance written by Gary L. Hoopes and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Student Self beliefs and Learning Behaviors on Mathematics Achievement for Nontraditional Students in an Online Charter High School written by Nathan Andrew Hawk and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of a high school diploma continues to increase. Still, certain student at-risk factors have been identified across the research literature that negatively impact likelihood to finish school and may increase prevalence of school dropout. That is, for students identified as at-risk, more maladaptive profiles of risk factors often lead to lower academic performance. However, these risk factors are typically non-adaptive, stable constructs endemic of prior experiences or external family-focused factors often uncontrolled by students; as such, transforming student achievement just by addressing this risk-performance relationship is insufficient. This study targeted this limitation by focusing on virtual learning environments. In online virtual-based learning, several important variables more amenable to change are posited to be important for student success in this study. These include mathematics self-efficacy, technology self-efficacy for online learning, and effective time management planning and monitoring. Combining these adaptive student personal characteristics with risk factors, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student at-risk factors and mathematics achievement in the context of one online charter high school. Further, the study examined how student personal characteristics, which are often amenable to change and intervention, impact the relationship between risk and mathematics achievement. Using multiple linear regression, this study explored how at-risk factors interacted with student personal characteristics to influence mathematics achievement. Thus, the priority was to interpret the statistical mechanisms by which these student personal characteristics influenced the risk to achievement relationship. Results show that student performed at an average level in their Algebra 1 course. Further, students’ age, likely coinciding with the grade level they took the courses negatively and significantly predicted course grade. This result suggests that when students take the course, when they take it for the first time, or if they repeat the course, has a significant impact of the course achievement outcomes. Additionally, domain-specific self-efficacy in mathematics contributed most to course grade among the hypothesized moderators. Finally, the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) on course grade was conditioned on level of one’s self-efficacy or time management. In general, more adaptive levels of one of the moderators lessened the impact of SES. On the other hand, while not significant, the conditional effect of the moderators on the relationship between parental involvement to course grade generally showed that higher levels of the moderators amplified this impact. This inquiry aims to enhance our understanding of the learning context in high school online learning, seeking to improve our awareness of critical and personal online learning factors that positively impact at-risk students’ online learning experience and achievement. Results of this study have important significance to high school virtual leaning in the mathematics classroom. The results show that when students have more adaptive self-efficacy or study behavior profile, impacts of prior family-based academic risk factors on achievement are lessened or positively strengthened. For virtual schools moving forward, teachers and administrators should consider ways to strengthen students’ self-efficacy and build programs to teach students about important learning behaviors, such as time management strategies.

Download or read book The Effects of an Engineering mathematics Course on Freshmen Students Mathematics Self efficacy written by Fred James Barker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Self efficacy in Mathematics on Urban High School Graduates Math Performance written by Mustapha Benaoui and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study, which used quantitative survey data, was to examine the extent to which the four sources of self-efficacy (i.e., performance experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and physiological and emotional reactions), in the subject of mathematics, correlate with student performance on the mathematics portion of community college placement tests taken by urban high school graduates entering community college. Using SurveyMonkey, a survey was administrated to 191 urban high school graduates taking mathematics placement tests for Massachusetts community colleges. The findings showed that only two of the four sources of self-efficacy, performance experiences and physiological and emotional reactions, were found to be statistically significant factors that influence the performance of recent urban high school graduates on community college mathematics placement tests. The other two sources of self-efficacy, vicarious experiences and verbal persuasion, were found not to be statistically significant factors affecting students' placement test performance. In addition, demographics (gender, ethnicity, and parent's or guardian's level of education) showed mixed findings. Specifically, gender was found to be significantly correlated with students' placement test results, where females were found to be more likely to perform better on placement tests in mathematics than males; however, these findings only occurred after controlling for students' levels of the four sources of self-efficacy. In addition, students' parent's or guardian's level of education was found to be significantly correlated with placement test results; however, this relationship was no longer present after controlling for students' levels of the four sources of self-efficacy. Furthermore, students' ethnicity was found to not be a significant factor in placement test results. Future studies in the area of mathematics test performance should investigate the impact of self-efficacy on other populations, such as a homogeneous group, students in nonurban schools, or students in a private school setting.

Download or read book The Effect of a Summer Bridge Program on Provisionally Admitted Students Self efficacy written by Merry Kathleen Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tracking Effort and Achievement written by Heather Schulz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Perceived Self Efficacy on Mathematics written by Isiaho Benard Omondi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated the effect of perceived self-efficacy on low and high achieving students, year level, age and gender in mathematics. The participants in the study were students aged 13-15 years in a secondary school in London. The research investigates how self-efficacy influences mathematics performance in academic settings. The distinctiveness of self-efficacy against other expectancy constructs is highlighted, followed by an exposition of the existing self-efficacy research in mathematics. Findings indicate that highly efficacious students in mathematics perform well than students with low self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is depicted as having a significant effect on mathematics performance and the year level. The study depicts that self-efficacy does not significantly influence age and gender. The measures used in the mathematics questionnaire substantiate the view that particularized or task specific measures of self-efficacy can be combined with the global measures in the explanation and prediction of academic outcomes.

Download or read book Self Efficacy in Changing Societies written by Albert Bandura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change.

Download or read book The Effects of Positive Self efficacy on Developmental Mathematics Students written by Jessica S. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theorizing and Measuring Affect in Mathematics Teaching and Learning written by Chiara Andrà and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a literature review of and a state-of-the-art glimpse into current research on affect-related aspects of teaching and learning in and beyond mathematics classrooms. Then, research presented at the MAVI 25 Conference, which took place in Intra (Italy) in June 2019, is grouped in thematic strands that capture cutting-edge issues related to affective components of learning and teaching mathematics. The concluding chapter summarises the main messages and sketches future directions for research on affect in mathematics education. The book is intended for researchers in mathematics education and especially graduate students and PhD candidates who are interested in emotions, attitudes, motivations, beliefs, needs and values in mathematics education.

Download or read book The Effects of a Standards based Mathematics Curriculum on the Self efficacy and Academic Achievement of Previously Unsuccessful Students written by Cindy Chesley Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Accelerated Mathematics on Self Efficacy and Growth Mindset written by Sharon Bi and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student's educational investment decisions are influenced by their beliefs about the returns to study effort and their chances of academic success. This highlights the importance of studying the effects of school policies on students' beliefs about their ability to learn and achieve. To this end, we examine the effects of accelerated math on students' self-efficacy and growth mindset, using survey measures of these beliefs. We argue, based on economic theory, that effects on growth mindset should be considered as more important relative to those on self-efficacy. We examine the effects of accelerated math empirically using a difference-in-differences design and find negative effects on both belief measures. However, the effects on growth mindset are much smaller, and in some analyses indistinguishable from zero, although these effects are larger in magnitude for female students. In exploring potential mechanisms, we find accelerated math leads to a precipitous drop in math course grades, with no similar drop in math test performance. Our findings suggest that there may be negative effects of acceleration on important student beliefs, but these effects appear modest. Our work motivates further study of the information environment surrounding these students at the time of acceleration.

Download or read book The Effects of Primary Students Mathematics Self efficacy and Beliefs about Intelligence on Their Mathematics Achievement written by Linda Bonne and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Direct and Indirect Effects of Mathematics Self Efficacy on Intermediate Students Mathematics Growth written by Susan Sipniewski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the investigator sought to determine the extent to which mathematics self-efficacy affects mathematics growth among students in grades four and five. Included in this investigation is a hypothesized structural model that reflects Bandura's (1977a, 1986, 1989) theory of self-efficacy. In part one of the investigation, each variable in the model (mathematics self-efficacy, self-regulation in mathematics, mathematics avoidance, mathematics anxiety, attitude toward mathematics, and mathematics growth) was analyzed to determine whether there were significant differences between genders in those specified variables. Findings revealed gender differences in two of the six variables, self-regulation in mathematics and mathematics avoidance. Females reported more self-regulatory behaviors in mathematics and less mathematics avoidance behaviors. In part two of the study, the investigator examined the measurement and structural model. In addition, the direct and indirect effects of mathematics self-efficacy on mathematics growth were analyzed. Results from this investigation showed no significant direct effect of mathematics self-efficacy on mathematics growth. However, there was a significant indirect effect of mathematics self-efficacy on mathematics growth with the following mediating variables: self-regulation in mathematics, mathematics avoidance, mathematics anxiety, and attitude toward mathematics. The indirect effect of mathematics self-efficacy on mathematics growth was small, and 5% of the variance in mathematics growth could be explained by the predictor variables. Though some of the data supported Bandura's (1977a, 1986, 1989) theory of self-efficacy, most of the findings do not support the theoretical framework. The findings from this investigation provide helpful information to the educators at the study's site. Further intervention studies in the areas of mathematics self-efficacy, self-regulation in mathematics, mathematics avoidance, mathematics anxiety, and attitude toward mathematics are recommended. Another recommendation for the study's site is to continue to strengthen the social and emotional learning environment with lessons centered on the growth mindset or through evidence-based programs.