Teacher characteristics as predictors of mathematics attitude and perceptions of engaged teaching among 12th grade advanced mathematics students in the U.S

Relationships between mathematics attitude and mathematics ability were investigated using six scale scores from Sandman's Mathematics Attitude Inventory and four mathematics scores from the California Test of Basic Skills. The instruments were administered to 714 seventh-grade mathematics students in classes grouped by ability level. Results showed significant differences in mathematics attitude and mathematics ability among the class levels and the teacher-determined ability groups. The mathematics-attitude scales for self-concept and anxiety proved to be the best correlates of mathematics achievement. Attitude data suggest that pupils placed in average-ability groups have self-concept and anxiety difficulties equal to or greater than pupils in low-ability groups.

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Vaping and Adolescents’ Characteristics: Implications for Prevention and Intervention

Journal of Student Research ◽

10.47611/jsrhs.v10i2.1421 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ava Chae ◽

Janet Stark

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Public Concern ◽

Effective Prevention ◽

Prevention And Intervention ◽

The Past ◽

12Th Grade ◽

Monitoring The Future ◽

The U.S

Vaping in the United States has increased in the past decade especially among teens and young adults, causing a rise in public concern for their health. What is relatively scarce in the previous research and the current discussion is the question about what groups of adolescents may be more vulnerable to vaping. This research investigates this very issue by analyzing the associations between vaping use and adolescents’ individual characteristics using a national survey of drug use among U.S. adolescents (“Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 2018”). The findings for logistic regression show that students who struggle with academics and skip school are more vulnerable to vaping than other students. In addition, there is a greater chance of vaping with those students going out more often than others. The amount of money students earn from a job and other work may also be increasing the chance for vaping. The findings can be valuable elements in designing a program of effective prevention and intervention of vaping in the U.S.

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Twelfth-Grade Mathematics in U.S. High Schools: A Report from the Second International Mathematics Study

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.78.4.0292 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 292-300

Author(s):

Curtis C. McKnight ◽

Kenneth J. Travers ◽

John A. Dossey

Keyword(s):

High Schools ◽

Mathematics Achievement ◽

Attitudes Toward Mathematics ◽

College Preparatory ◽

Mathematics Students ◽

Secondary Schooling ◽

College Preparatory Mathematics ◽

Twelfth Grade ◽

The U.S ◽

Preparatory Mathematics

What mathematics is taught to twelfth grade students in high schools in the U.S. who are enrolled in at least their fourth year of college preparatory mathematics? What are the teachers like who provide this instruction? How do they spend their time? How do the students spend their time? How well do the students do? What are their attitudes toward mathematics? Do they gain much in mathematics achievement during the year? How does their achievement compare with that of students at the end of secondary schooling in other countries? How do they compare with twelfth-grade college preparatory mathematics students of twenty years ago?

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TRANSITION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS STUDENTS TO THE U.S. LABOR MARKET: THE ROLE OF VISA POLICY

Economic Inquiry ◽

10.1111/ecin.12795 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (3) ◽

pp. 1367-1391 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Murat Demirci

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Mathematics Students ◽

Science Technology ◽

Visa Policy ◽

And Mathematics ◽

The U.S

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Proof Practices and Constructs of Advanced Mathematics Students

British Educational Research Journal ◽

10.1080/0141192940200105 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 41-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Robert Coe ◽

Kenneth Ruthven

Keyword(s):

Advanced Mathematics ◽

Mathematics Students

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Sharing Teaching Ideas: Graphical Transformations and Calculator Greeting Cards

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.94.2.0106 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 106-110

Keyword(s):

Mathematics Classroom ◽

Linear Equations ◽

Linear Functions ◽

Advanced Mathematics ◽

Algebraic Equations ◽

Mathematics Students ◽

Algebra Students ◽

Greeting Cards ◽

Rectangular Coordinates ◽

Different Characteristics

Greeting cards exist in many forms—homemade, store-bought, musical, and Internet cards—just to name a few. With the availability of graphing calculators, the creativity and fun of making greeting cards can be brought into the mathematics classroom to enhance students' understanding of functions. Graphing-calculator greeting cards can take on different characteristics and can be created by students at different mathematics levels. A central objective of the task is to use algebraic equations to create desired graphical designs that, along with strategically placed text, extend a calculator greeting. The algebraic equations used can range in difficulty from linear functions in rectangular coordinates to polar or parametric equations. Algebra students who are learning about linear equations, as well as advanced mathematics students who are working with a broad range of families of functions and relations, can create calculator greeting cards.

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Shortcomings of the ‘approaches to learning’ framework in the context of undergraduate mathematics

Journal of Research in Mathematics Education ◽

10.17583/redimat.2019.2541 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 293

Author(s):

Ellie Darlington

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Study Skills ◽

Approaches To Learning ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Advanced Mathematics ◽

Mathematics Students ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

High Stakes ◽

University Mathematics ◽

Learning Framework

Students’ approaches to learning are heavily researched in higher education, and are of particular concern in the field of mathematics where many students have been found to struggle with the transition to university mathematics. This article outlines a mixed methods study which sought to describe undergraduate mathematicians’ approaches to learning using the deep-surface-strategic ‘trichotomy’ using the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students with 414 mathematics students and semi-structured interviews with a subset of 13 at a leading British university. Analysis found that neither the ‘approaches to learning’ framework nor the inventory can effectively describe students’ study practices, and conceal important elements of how students learn advanced mathematics for examinations. Therefore, it is important that educators do not try to oversimplify students’ methods using quantitative questionnaires but do seek to support those who would otherwise rely solely on memorisation as a means of passing high-stakes examinations.

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