Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li

This study seeks to examine university students’ attitudes and their perceptions on calculus education. Lecturers’ suggestions to remedy the current situation of calculus learning were also investigated. The instruments of this study consisted of three sets of questionnaires, aimed at collecting dat...

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Main Authors:	Tang, Howe Eng, Julaihi, Nor Hazizah, Voon, Li Li
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Research Management Institute (RMI) 2013
Subjects:	Consciousness. Cognition Higher Education Calculus
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13111/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13111/1/AJ_TANG%20HOWE%20ENG%20SMRJ%2013%201.pdf

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spelling	uitm-131112016-06-30T08:29:36Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13111/ Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li Tang, Howe Eng Julaihi, Nor Hazizah Voon, Li Li Consciousness. Cognition Higher Education Calculus This study seeks to examine university students’ attitudes and their perceptions on calculus education. Lecturers’ suggestions to remedy the current situation of calculus learning were also investigated. The instruments of this study consisted of three sets of questionnaires, aimed at collecting data regarding students’ attitudes and perceptions on calculus and lecturers’ suggestions. The respondents consisted of 278 full-time diploma students in a public university in Malaysia. The findings indicate that the students’ attitudes towards the Course of calculus according to gender were insignificant. However, there was a significant difference in the students’ attitudes towards the Field of calculus between female and male students. Students of Pre-Calculus and Calculus I were found to be feeling, thinking, and behaving similarly about calculus. Their attitudes towards the Field of calculus among the four engineering and science programmes were significant. After attempting 39.27% of the given questions, students’ perceptions on the difficulty of the questions remained the same, which was neither easier nor harder than they expected. Nevertheless, students’ perceptions changed positively (questions more difficult than expected) in 19.45% of the questions and negatively (questions easier than expected) in 41.28% of the questions. The implications from these findings provided inputs to improve calculus teaching and learning. Information regarding students’ attitudes toward calculus could help lecturers to design comprehensive calculus lessons that suit all kinds of students. Students also need to change their attitudes towards calculus, for example by having a closer inspection of the exact nature of the calculus questions before attempting them. Research Management Institute (RMI) 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13111/1/AJ_TANG%20HOWE%20ENG%20SMRJ%2013%201.pdf Tang, Howe Eng and Julaihi, Nor Hazizah and Voon, Li Li (2013) Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li. Social and Management Research Journal, 10 (1). pp. 1-39. ISSN 1675-7017
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description	This study seeks to examine university students’ attitudes and their perceptions on calculus education. Lecturers’ suggestions to remedy the current situation of calculus learning were also investigated. The instruments of this study consisted of three sets of questionnaires, aimed at collecting data regarding students’ attitudes and perceptions on calculus and lecturers’ suggestions. The respondents consisted of 278 full-time diploma students in a public university in Malaysia. The findings indicate that the students’ attitudes towards the Course of calculus according to gender were insignificant. However, there was a significant difference in the students’ attitudes towards the Field of calculus between female and male students. Students of Pre-Calculus and Calculus I were found to be feeling, thinking, and behaving similarly about calculus. Their attitudes towards the Field of calculus among the four engineering and science programmes were significant. After attempting 39.27% of the given questions, students’ perceptions on the difficulty of the questions remained the same, which was neither easier nor harder than they expected. Nevertheless, students’ perceptions changed positively (questions more difficult than expected) in 19.45% of the questions and negatively (questions easier than expected) in 41.28% of the questions. The implications from these findings provided inputs to improve calculus teaching and learning. Information regarding students’ attitudes toward calculus could help lecturers to design comprehensive calculus lessons that suit all kinds of students. Students also need to change their attitudes towards calculus, for example by having a closer inspection of the exact nature of the calculus questions before attempting them.
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title	Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li
title_short	Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li
title_full	Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li
title_fullStr	Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li
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Attitudes and perceptions of university students towards calculus / Tang Howe Eng, Nor Hazizah Julaihi and Voon Li Li

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