Assessing Senior Secondary School Students’ Mathematical Proficiency as Related to Gender and Performance in Mathematics in Nigeria
Assessing Senior Secondary School Students’ Mathematical Proficiency as Related to Gender and Performance in Mathematics in Nigeria
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评估尼日利亚高中生的数学能力与性别和数学成绩的关系
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10.21890/ijres.327908
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2017
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通讯作者：
Adeneye Olarewaju Adeleye Awofala
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作者：
Adeneye Olarewaju Adeleye Awofala
本研究采用描述性调查设计的蓝图内的定量研究方法，调查了来自拉各斯州10所精英高中的400名尼日利亚高中学生的数学能力与性别和数学成绩的关系。收集的数据进行了分析，使用频率，百分比，平均值和标准差的描述性统计和独立样本t检验和多元回归分析的推断统计。研究结果显示，精英学校的高中生在数学方面表现出较高的水平。高中生的概念理解、程序流畅性、策略能力、适应性推理、产出性倾向和数学表现之间存在显着的可能相关性。虽然数学熟练程度的性别差异不再重要，甚至在分量表水平上也在消失，但本研究中的数学表现存在微妙的性别差异。性别、概念理解、产出性倾向、适应性推理、策略能力和程序流畅性对高中生数学学习成绩的方差有显著的影响。基于这一基线研究，因此，建议在尼日利亚未来的研究应该调查的数学能力的非精英学校占主导地位的长度和宽度，这个国家，以概括本研究的结果。
The study investigated mathematical proficiency as related to gender and performance in mathematics among 400 Nigerian senior secondary school students from 10 elitist senior secondary schools in Lagos State using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of descriptive survey design. Data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation and inferential statistics of independent samples t-test, and multiple regression analysis. Findings revealed that senior secondary school students from the elitist schools showed high level of mathematical proficiency. There were significant possible correlations among senior secondary school students‟ conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, productive disposition and performance in mathematics. While gender differences in mathematical proficiency are no longer important and are dissipating even at the subscale level there are subtle gender differences in performance in mathematics in this study. Gender, conceptual understanding, productive disposition, adaptive reasoning, strategic competence and procedural fluency made statistically significant contributions to the variance in senior secondary school students‟ performance in mathematics. Based on this base line study, it was thus, recommended that future studies in Nigeria should investigate the mathematical proficiency of non-elitist schools which dominated the length and breadth of this country so as to generalize the results of this study.