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- Title
Mathematics motivation and achievement as predictors of high school students' guessing and help-seeking with instructional software.
- Authors
Beal, C.R.; Qu, L.; Lee, H.
- Abstract
The study was conducted to investigate the relation of adolescent students' mathematics motivation and achievement to their appropriate help-seeking and inappropriate guessing behaviour while using instructional software. High school students ( n = 90) completed brief assessments of mathematics motivation and then worked with software for geometry instruction. Students' actions with the software were machine-classified to identify instances of appropriate help-seeking and inappropriate guessing. Mathematics teachers provided information about students' achievement (high, average or at risk of failing math class). Results indicated that students with low math self-concept were most likely to engage in inappropriate guessing behaviour. Students with low math achievement were most likely to engage in appropriate help-seeking while working with the software.
- Subjects
TEACHING aids; MATHEMATICS education; GUESSING (Educational tests &; measurements); EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; HIGH school students; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008, Vol 24, Issue 6, p507
- ISSN
0266-4909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2729.2008.00288.x