scholarly journals Gender Differences in Attitudes and Achievement in Mathematics among Ghanaian JHS Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Derrick Anokye-Poku ◽  
Ernest Ampadu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics

Students’ learning and performance in mathematics is affected by several factors, including students’ attitude. This paper aims to understand the gender differences in attitude toward mathematics and mathematics achievement. A descriptive survey design was used, and the participants consisted of 360 Junior High School students. Two instruments, semi-structured questionnaire and students test scores were used. The results revealed that, in general, both female and male students held positive attitudes towards mathematics, and there was no significant difference in attitudes between genders toward mathematics. However, the results established that there was a significant difference in achievement. It was recommended that to achieve sustainable development goal 4, teachers, parents, and educational authorities should develop creative and innovative ways of helping students, especially female students to build self-confidence in the learning of mathematics.

scholarly journals Student engagement during pandemic COVID-19 and its implications for guidance and counseling

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Imam Setyo Nugroho ◽  
Eny Kusumawati ◽  
Diana Dewi Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
School Level ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Performance

Student engagement is a condition of the extent to which students play an active role in the learning process by focusing on time, energy, mind, effort, feelings and making it happen in action to complete their academic tasks completely. This study aims to explore and find out the level of student engagement in the Covid-19 pandemic period seen from gender differences and the school level. Quantitative descriptive research with this survey design involves 469 students, 245 students of the junior high school, and 224 senior high school students chosen using a stratified random sampling proportionate cluster. The results showed that secondary school students in the Covid-19 pandemic period had an average level of student engagement in the medium category. This study found, there was no different level of student engagement based on gender (t (467) = -1.86). But specifically, the participation has a significant difference, while the skill, emotion, and performance do not have a significant difference. At the school level, indicate that there are significant differences in the level of student engagement (t(467)= -3.39). Furthermore, it can be seen from every indicator of student engagement skills, participation and performance have a significant difference and only an emotion that does not have it. The results of this study have implications for the planning of guidance and counseling programs in schools during the Covid-19 pandemic period, which is important to see the level of student engagement, especially in the emotional indicator. Further discussion is discussed in this article.

Israel’s Arab sector high schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Judith Kohan-Mass ◽  
Basheer Dakwar ◽  
Varda Dadush
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Arab Sector ◽  
Economic Future

Despite the global decline in the number of girls who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, in Israel, gender differences of physics students are especially worrying. Although girls and boys in junior high school reach similar achievements in physics, the number of girls who study physics in high school is declining. However, an interesting picture emerges when we compare the Arab and Jewish sectors: Girls account for 30% of all high school students who study physics in the Jewish sector, compared to almost 60% in the Arab sector. Interviews with Arab high school students in an advanced physics program indicate that although girls face internal and external obstacles in patriarchic Arab society, they transform these obstacles into factors that motivate them to greater achievements, in order to gain self-confidence and a more stable, promising economic future in their society. These findings challenge conventional theories that explain the gender gap in STEM subjects.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT BASED ON LEARNING STYLES

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Louise M Saija
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematics Problem Solving ◽  
Perceptual Learning Style ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Mathematics

This descriptive and comparative study aims to see the students learning styles and mathematics achievements. The respondent are fifty junior high school students in Lembang, West Bandung, Indonesia. The research instruments are Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire (PLSPQ) and mathematics problem solving test. The result of this study are: (1) Only twenty percent of the students have exactly  one learning style and most of the students has kinesthetic learning style; (2) Students who have  three or less major learning styles perform good mathematics achievement,  and  students who have minor learning styles only, perform better mathematics achievements averagely, comparing with students who have major learning styles; (3) Students perform better mathematics achievement when they have more than one learning style, (4) There is no significant difference in the students’ mathematics achievement, between students who have three or less major learning styles and students who have more than three major learning styles.

Assessment of the implicit attitude of Japanese people toward blacks and Little Black Sambo

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Mori
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Implicit Attitude ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Single Target ◽  
Significant Difference

We examined whether Japanese people, 47 junior high school students, 49 undergraduates, and 52 older adults, possessed negative attitudes against blacks and the picture book Little Black Sambo. We assessed the implicit attitude toward the target word pairs, “black/white” and “Sambo/Heidi,” by utilizing a paper-based Implicit Association Test and found that both black and Sambo were associated more negatively than white and Heidi. However, the implicit attitudes assessed with a single-target IAT showed that 67 Japanese students showed positive implicit scores for blacks but with smaller valences. A post hoc analysis revealed that the reading experience of Little Black Sambo did not show a significant difference between the implicit attitudes of those who had and had not read the book.

scholarly journals Indonesian EFL students’ voice on the first language usage in classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Binti Muifatun Nazilah ◽  
Peptia Asrining Tyas ◽  
Wiwik Umiyati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
First Language ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Students Attitudes

The first language (L1) usage is still found during the English lesson, specifically in non-native English countries. This may be a debatable issue among experts. Hence, investigation on students’ perception is helpful in this study. It will give an insight into students’ preferences for learning the language. The previous studies related to this topic were mainly focused on senior high school and undergraduate students as the subject. Therefore, this present study proposed to explore the perception of junior high school students. In conducting this study, the researcher applied a quantitative survey design. There were 29 questions in three sections that were distributed to investigate: (1) the language used in the EFL classroom, (2) students’ attitudes as well as (3) students’ well-being during the English foreign language lesson. The participants were 101 students of SMP Shalahuddin Malang. The findings revealed that students have positive responses towards the use of Indonesian langauge during the EFL lesson.   DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v6i2.6701

scholarly journals Kompetensi Sosial Remaja Berdasarkan Status Pekerjaan dan Pola Pengasuhan Ibu

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Sekar Tristi Apriza ◽  
Edilburga Wulan Saptandari
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Work Status ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Working Status ◽  
The Difference

This study was aimed to determine the difference of adolescents’ social competence based on their mothers’ working and non-working status and parenting styles. The interaction between mothers’ work status and their parenting styles in determining adolescents’ social competence was also tested. A total number of 292 Junior High School students whose ages ranged from 11 to15 years old were involved in this study. Data were collected using online questionnaires of social Competence and parenting styles and were analyzed using two-way ANOVA. The results reveal no difference in social competence between adolescents whose mothers are working and those whose mothers are not working. However, a significant difference of the adolescents’ social competence was found when it is based on mothers’ parenting styles. The result also shows no interaction between mothers’ working status and their parenting styles.Keywords: Social competence, adolescents, work status, parenting style, mother Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan kompetensi sosial pada remaja dengan ibu bekerja dan tidak bekerja dan perbedaan kompetensi sosial pada remaja ditinjau dari pola asuh ibu. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk mengetahui interaksi antara status pekerjaan ibu dengan pola asuh ibu dalam menentukan kompetensi sosial. Partisipan penelitian adalah 292 remaja siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) yang berusia antara 11-15 tahun. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk koleksi data adalah skala Kompetensi Sosial dan Skala Pola Asuh Ibu. Data penelitian dianalisis menggunakan Two Way ANOVA. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat perbedaan kompetensi sosial pada remaja dengan ibu bekerja dan tidak bekerja. Namun, terdapat perbedaan kompetensi sosial pada remaja ditinjau dari pola asuh ibu. Hasil penelitian juga menunjukkan tidak terdapat interaksi antara status pekerjaan ibu dengan pola asuh ibu dalam menentukan kompetensi sosial remaja.

scholarly journals Incidence of scoliosis among junior high school students in Zhongshan city, Guangdong and the possible importance of decreased miR-30e expression

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 030006051988943
Author(s):  
Fuli Huang ◽  
Yongheng Liu ◽  
Junzhe Wu ◽  
Junlin Yang ◽  
Sizhe Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Sitting Posture ◽  
Significant Difference

Objective We investigated scoliosis incidence among junior high school students in Zhongshan city, Guangdong, China and the expression of miR-30e among those with scoliosis. Methods A total 41,258 students were included. From July 2015 to December 2017, all students underwent screening including routine observation of the standing and sitting posture, Adam's forward bend test, dorsal tilt angle measurement, and X-ray examination. Age, sex, height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were recorded. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to assess miR-30e expression among students with scoliosis and 200 healthy students. Results Overall, 743 students were diagnosed with scoliosis, with an incidence rate of 1.80%. A total 646 (86.9%) students were diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis, 38 (5.1%) with congenital scoliosis, and 59 (7.9%) with other scoliosis types. Compared with healthy students, height was significantly greater whereas weight and BMI were significantly lower among students with scoliosis, and expression of miR-30e was significantly lower. However, no significant difference was found in height, weight, BMI, and mean Cobb angle between high/low miR-30e groups. Conclusion The incidence rate for scoliosis was 1.80%, Compared with healthy students, those with scoliosis were taller, had lower weight and BMI, and miR-30e expression was significantly downregulated.

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