Pupils’ attitudes towards art teaching in primary school: an evaluation tool



Perceived ability

T-tests for independent samples were carried out for the subscales of enjoyment,
usefulness and support needed in order to localise the effect of this constructed variable
‘perceived ability’. The tests revealed that
high confidence pupils had significantly (p< .
001) more positive attitudes towards art in all subscales (see table 3).
High confidence
pupils enjoyed art more, valued art activities more and believed more strongly that their
teacher was supportive. The results suggest the concept of perceived ability appears to
represent the key idea that most individuals will not be interested in and value a task, in
this case art activities, when they believed that they are not good at it and thus they
expect to fail.

Table 3

Perceived ability and gender

The statistical technique used for identifying the interaction between the variables
teachers’ background and gender was the General Linear Model (GLM). The GLM test
showed that there was a significant interaction between the variables
perceived ability
and gender for the subscales of enjoyment (p<. 01) and usefulness (p< .05). Line graphs
were used to study and clarify the patterns of the means of the groups. These showed that
high confidence girls and high confidence boys had similar attitudes towards art, which
were much more positive than
low confidence girls and boys’ attitudes. But, low
confidence
girls enjoyed art and valued art significantly more than low confidence boys.

17



More intriguing information

1. The name is absent
2. The name is absent
3. Cardiac Arrhythmia and Geomagnetic Activity
4. The name is absent
5. WP RR 17 - Industrial relations in the transport sector in the Netherlands
6. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE PROGRAMS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS
7. Determinants of U.S. Textile and Apparel Import Trade
8. Modelling Transport in an Interregional General Equilibrium Model with Externalities
9. EXPANDING HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE U.K: FROM ‘SYSTEM SLOWDOWN’ TO ‘SYSTEM ACCELERATION’
10. Input-Output Analysis, Linear Programming and Modified Multipliers
11. The name is absent
12. Evidence on the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Three European Regions
13. The Role of area-yield crop insurance program face to the Mid-term Review of Common Agricultural Policy
14. The name is absent
15. Dendritic Inhibition Enhances Neural Coding Properties
16. Cultural Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal Choice
17. Types of Cost in Inductive Concept Learning
18. DETERMINANTS OF FOOD AWAY FROM HOME AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICANS
19. Strategic Policy Options to Improve Irrigation Water Allocation Efficiency: Analysis on Egypt and Morocco
20. Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD