ASEAN Journal of Science and Engineering Education (AJSEE)
Vol 4, No 1 (2024): (ONLINE FIRST) AJSEE: March 2024

Primary Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Teaching Anxiety as Predictors of Students’ Performance in Mathematics

Adeneye Olarewaju A. Awofala (University of Lagos)
Sabainah O. Akinoso (University of Lagos)
Comfort O. Adeniyi (University of Lagos)
Sufiyanu H. Jega (Kebbi State University)
Alfred O. Fatade (Tai Solarin University of Education)
Abayomi A. Arigbabu (aawofala@unilag.edu.ng)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Aug 2022

Abstract

The study investigated primary teachers’ mathematics anxiety as related to mathematics teaching anxiety and students’ performance in mathematics among 480 primary teachers from twenty public primary schools. The study adopted the quantitative research method within the blueprint of the descriptive survey design. Findings revealed that test anxiety, course anxiety, application anxiety, computation anxiety, social anxiety, content knowledge teaching anxiety, self-confidence teaching anxiety, attitudes toward mathematics teaching anxiety, and teaching knowledge anxiety jointly contributed to a coefficient of multiple regression of 0.501 and a multiple correlation square of 0.251 to the prediction of student's performance in mathematics. By implication, 25.1% of the total variance of the dependent variable (performance in mathematics) was accounted for by the combination of the nine independent variables. Based on this study, it was thus, recommended that future studies in Nigeria and elsewhere should investigate the factor analytic structure of the mathematics teaching anxiety scale among in-service and preservice teachers of mathematics.

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Journal Info

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AJSEE

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Subject

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Bioengineering Education Engineering Materials Science & Nanotechnology Other

Description

ASEAN Journal of Science and Engineering Education (AJSEE) promotes research in the broad field of science and Engineering Education (including such disciplines as Agriculture Education, Environmental Science Education, etc.) with particular respect to Indonesia, but not limited to authorship or ...