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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attitudes promoted by different teaching methods. These were regressed on
mathematics self-concept.

The responses of 1219 5th graders perceiving their mathematics learning as successful
were used in the analysis. For them, perceived satisfaction in the classroom predicted
their mathematics self-concept best. General self-concept, deployment of
Teacher
explanation
and Whole-class discussion, sense of security promoted by Individual work,
motivation promoted by Individual help, attribution of success to ability and perceived
competition in classroom predicted their mathematics self-concept positively to a lesser
extent. Attribution of success to luck or teacher support and deployment of
Individual
help
made a negative ∞ntribution to predicting pupils’ mathematics self-concept.

The most distinctive finding was that the perceived frequency of the deployment of
Individual help affected mathematics self-concept inversely, while motivation promoted
by this teaching method affected mathematics self-concept positively. The Multiple R
value was .570 and the adjusted R square was .318 (F=41.959, p<. 01). See Table 7.5.1
for details.

Table 7.5.1: The multiple correlation coefficient of stepwise multiple regression of 5th
graders perceiving their mathematics learning as successful

Unstandardised
coefficient________________

Standadised
Coefficients

t

Sig.__________.

B_________

Std-Error

Beta________

(Constant)

.699

.089

7.864

.000

Satisfaction__________________________

.123

.009

.374          ^

13.279

.000

Sense of security: Individual work

3.302E-02

.011

.089

3.002

.003

Deployment of Teacher explanation

7.969E-02

.015

.156

5.455

.000

Attribution: luck

-.267

.050

-.147

- 5.325

.000

Deployment of Individual help

-5.653E-02

.014

-.116

-4.146

.000

General self-concept

8.812E-03

.003

.094

3.273

.001

Attribution: teacher support

-.108

.033

-.092

- 3.295

.001

Motivation: Individual help

2.916E-02

.011

.078

2.709

.007

Deployment of Whole-class
discussion__________________________

3.352E-02

.013

.072

2.565

.010

Attribution: ability

.210

.086

.066

2.437

.015

Competition

1.848E-02

.008

.059

2.176

.030

The responses of 260 5th graders perceiving their mathematics learning as failing were
analysed, using the same stepwise multiple regression procedure as for students
perceiving their learning as successful. For the students perceiving themselves as

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