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ERIC Number: EJ1034239
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Jul
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 41
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-1303-6521
Students, Computers and Mathematics the Golden Trilogy in the Teaching-Learning Process
García-Santillán, Arturo; Escalera-Chávez, Milka Elena; López-Morales, José Satsumi; Córdova Rangel, Arturo
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, v13 n3 p138-147 Jul 2014
In this paper we examine the relationships between students' attitudes towards mathematics and technology, therefore, we take a Galbraith and Hines' scale (1998, 2000) about mathematics confidence, computer confidence, computer and mathematics interaction, mathematics motivation, computer motivation, and mathematics engagement. 164 questionnaires were applied to undergraduate students of several profiles: business and management, mecatronic engineering, industrial engineering, strategic system engineering and mechanic engineering all they in a study carried out at the "Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes". The statistical procedure used was factorial analysis with an extracted principal component. The Hypothesis: Ho: ?=0 has no correlation, while Ha: ? ?0 does. Statistics test to prove: ?[super script 2], Bartlett test of sphericity, KMO (Kaiser- Meyer_Olkin) Significance level: a=0.05; p<0.05 therefore reject Ho if X [superscript 2] [subscript calculated] > X [superscript 2] [subscript tabulated]. The results obtained from the sphericity test of Bartlett KMO (0.859), ?[superscript 2] [subscript calculated], 539.612 with 10 df > ?[superscript 2] [subscript tabulated], Sig. 0.00 < p 0.01, MSA (MATH-CONFI 0.853; MATH-MOTI 0.884; MATH-ENGA 0.846; COMPU-CONFI 0.868 and INTEMACO 0.848) provide evidence to reject "Ho". Thus, the variables of Galbraith and Hines' scale help us to understand the student's attitude toward mathematics and technology.
Sakarya University. Esentepe Campus, Adapazari 54000, Turkey. Tel: +90-505-2431868; Fax: +90-264-6141034; e-mail: tojet@sakarya.edu.tr; Web site: http://www.tojet.net
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Mexico