An Investigation on Some Traits in Affective Domein Effecting Achievement of Junior High School Students

Abstract

In the study, involving subjects who are seventh-grade students of the Attached Lower Secondary School of the College of Education, Akita University Japan, I intend to investigate the following problems mainly concerning the relationship between the cognitive and affective domains of teaching mathematics, which are as follows: (1) change of their attitudes toward mathematics during about 11 months, (2) predictability of mathematics achievement by intelligence and attitudes toward mathematics, (3) relationship between predicted factors under the factorization of their attitudes scores and mathematics achievement, and (4) change of their predicted factors of three groups: the upper achievers, the middle achievers and the lower achievers. The results of the study are summarized as follows: (1) Their attitudes toward mathematics are changed into less favorable ones. (2) Attitudes toward mathematics or a trait on character and behavior is almost one of predictable factors of achievement. (3) Predicted factors Factor 1 and Factor 3 equally effect mathematics achievement. (4) Factor 2 of the group of the upper achievers, Factor 1 of the group of the middle achievers and three predicted factors Factor 1,2 and 3 of the group of the lower achievers are changed during 11 months.