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Direct linkAugustina Chinyere Nzeadibe; Felix Oromena Egara; Chiedu Eseadi; JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2024
This study investigated the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on mathematics anxiety among students in Nigerian secondary schools. Eighty-six senior secondary class one students (aged 15-16 years) participated, comprising 43 students allocated to the experimental group and 43 students allocated to the control group. Mathematics…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Restructuring, Mathematics Anxiety, Adolescents
Olufemi Timothy Adigun; Chedza Denise Kent; Fumane Khanare; Nthama Matsie – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
There is yet a concerted effort directed to ameliorate mathematics anxiety (MA) among deaf learners especially in Nigeria. Hence, this study examined the effects of rational emotive behavioural and relaxation therapies on MA among deaf learners. The study adopted the quantitative quasi-experimental research design. A purposive sampling method was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Secondary School Students, School Segregation
Download full textIsmail, Norulhuda; Garba, Aliyu; Osman, Sharifah; Ibrahim, Nor Hasniza; Bunyamin, Muhammad Abd Hadi – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2022
Mathematics anxiety is the feeling of tension and fear which interferes with the manipulation of numbers in ordinary life and academic setting. This study aimed at exploring students' level of mathematics anxiety and teacher behavior and speech which intensifies and minimizes mathematics anxiety among secondary schools in Sokoto state, Nigeria. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Photography, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Olanrewaju, Muraina Kamilu – Asian Journal of University Education, 2019
Mathematics is one of the subjects that is taken very seriously in the school system, irrespective of country or level of education. This study therefore examined the effects of collaborative learning technique and Mathematics anxiety on Mathematics learning achievement of secondary school students in Gombe State, Nigeria. Pretest-posttest,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students
Garba, Aliyu; Ismail, Norulhuda; Osman, Sharifah; Rameli, Mohd Rustam Mohd – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Mathematics anxiety is prevalent in Nigeria where students have a fear of the subject. Much research has been conducted on the level of mathematics anxiety, the differences between the genders, and its relationship with performance. However, little has been done on the factors for mathematics anxiety, and even less on peers' contribution towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Anxiety, Photography
Gbore, Lawrence Olu; Osakuade, Joseph Oluwatayo – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study investigated the effects of test-wiseness training in Mathematics on adolescent secondary school students' test anxiety. The research study adopted for the study was an experimental research that involved pretest, posttest and control groups design. One hundred and twenty (120) adolescent senior secondary school class three students of…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Test Preparation, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
Dauda, Bala; Jambo, Hyelni Emmanuel; Umar, Muhammad Amin – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study examined students' perception of factors influencing teaching and learning of mathematics in senior secondary schools in Maiduguri Metropolis of Borno State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to determine the extent to which students perceived: qualification, method of teaching, instructional materials and attitude of both…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics
Holm, Jennifer, Ed.; Megroureche, Charlotte, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2022
With COVID-19 continuing to make meeting face-to-face impossible, the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group/Groupe Canadien d'Étude en Didactique des Mathématiques (CMESG/GCEDM) executive decided that, for the first time, the CMESG/GCEDM meeting would be held virtually. By necessity, the program had to be much compressed with no topic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
Perry, S. Marshall; Catapano, Michael; Ramon, Olosunde Gbolagade – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2016
This paper explores the relationships among attitudes toward mathematics, teaching, and academic achievement in mathematics. Based on the contextual and social nature of academic self-concept, two complementary studies are discussed. The first study from the northeastern United States examined the relationships among these variables in 84 high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Student Attitudes, High School Students
Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2014
This study investigated the effect of a personalised print-based instruction versus a non-personalised print-based instruction on the attitudes toward mathematics word problems of 350 senior secondary school year one Nigerian students within the blueprint of a quantitative research of pre-treatment-intervention-post-treatment non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – Online Submission, 2014
This study investigated the effect of a personalised print-based instruction versus a non-personalised print-based instruction on the attitudes toward mathematics word problems of 350 senior secondary school year one Nigerian students within the blueprint of a quantitative research of pre-treatment-intervention-post-treatment non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Tella, Adedeji – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
In our match towards scientific and technological advancement, we need nothing short of good performance in mathematics at all levels of schooling. In an effort to achieve this, this study investigated the impact of motivation on students' school academic achievement in mathematics in secondary schools using motivation for academic preference…
Descriptors: Motivation, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Secondary School Students
