INTER-RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STUDENTS' OCCUPATIONAL PREFERENCES, ACHIEVEMENT IN AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS MATHEMATICS IN METROPOLITAN ZARIA

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dc.contributor.authorABUBAKAR, OCHEPA ISA
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-04T08:25:45Z
dc.date.available2014-03-04T08:25:45Z
dc.date.issued1987-04
dc.descriptionDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA NIGERIA.en_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the interrelationships among students' occupational preferences, achievement in, and attitude towards mathematics in metropolitan Zaria of Kaduna State. The investigation was carried out with the fifth form students offering the general mathematics syllabus in Zaria area of Kaduna State. There were nine secondary schools with such fifth form students and of these, seven schools with form five student population of 2,121 were accessible for the study. A random sample of 50 students per school was chosen, giving a total of 350 students from the seven schools. Data were collected through the use of questionnaires and informal interviews. The questionnaire included an adapted form of the Mathematics Attitude Scale (MAS) developed by Shumway and White (1981). The questionnaire also sought information about the respondents preferred occupations. Mathematics achievement scores were obtained from the mock G.C.E. examination results from the Education Resource Centre (ERC) Zaria. After the data collection, the Pearson productmoment and biserial correlation coefficients were calculated to determine the nature of the relationship between the chosen variables of the study. The results were used to test three null hypotheses of the study and the findings revealed that: (a) There is a significant high positive correlation between students' achievement in mathematics and their attitude towards mathematics. (b) There is a significant positive relationship between students' attitude towards mathematics and their preferred occupations. (c) Students' preferred occupations positively and significantly correlated with their achievement in mathematics. It was concluded that students' achievement in, and attitude towards mathematics are not only related to each other but each of them also correlates significantly with students' preferred occupations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://kubanni.abu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/3134
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectINTER-RELATIONSHIPS,en_US
dc.subjectSTUDENTS,en_US
dc.subjectOCCUPATIONAL,en_US
dc.subjectPREFERENCES,en_US
dc.subjectACHIEVEMENT,en_US
dc.subjectATTITUDE,en_US
dc.subjectTOWARDS,en_US
dc.subjectMATHEMATICS,en_US
dc.subjectMETROPOLITAN,en_US
dc.subjectZARIA.en_US
dc.titleINTER-RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STUDENTS' OCCUPATIONAL PREFERENCES, ACHIEVEMENT IN AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS MATHEMATICS IN METROPOLITAN ZARIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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