5th and 8th grade pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions of the relationships between teaching methods, classroom ethos, and positive affective attitudes towards learning mathematics in Japan



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A sense Ofprogress

Table 4.1.22 and Figure 4.1.19 below show that 8th graders believed strongly (4≤M<5)
that
Individual help promoted their sense of progress. They neither agreed nor disagreed
(3<M<4) that
Reading a textbook, Teacher explanation, and Individual work promoted it,
and they expressed disagreement (2<M<3) that
Practical work, Using a computer,
Whole-class discussion
and Group discussion promoted it. These differences were
statistically significant. A relatively wide distribution of responses existed in the extent to
which sense of progress was perceived to be promoted by all of the teaching methods
considered. 8th graders felt that only
Individual help positively promoted a sense of
progress. This was one of the teaching methods reported as frequently being deployed
by the teachers of 8th graders.

Table 4.1.22: Mean scores and Standard Deviation; a sense of progress, perceptions of
8th graders

Practical
Work
(PW)

Using
Computer
(UC)

Reading a
Textb∞k
(RT)

Teacher
Explanation
(TE)

Individual
Work
(IW)

Individual
Help
(IH)___________

Whole-class
Discussion
(WD)

Group
Discussion
(GD)

N

2143

2138

2141

2142

2143

2142

2143

2142

M

2.75

2.57

3.15

3.83

3.79     '

4.03

2.52________

2.62

SD

1.26

1.22________

1.26

1.10_________

1.16

1.15________

1.15________

1.19________

The result of a repeated measure ANOVA [F(8,17064)=800.79, p<.01]

Figure 4.1.19: Sense of progress promoted by different teaching methods, perceptions
of 8th graders

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