Effect of Personalisation of Instruction on Students' Anxiety in Mathematical Word Problems in Nigeria

This study determined the effect of personalisation of instruction on the anxie-ty in mathematics word problems of 450 senior secondary school year two stu-dents in Nigeria within the blueprint of quasi-experimental research of Solo-mon four non-equivalent control group design. It also examined the...

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Main Author: A.O.A. Awofala (Author)
Format: Book
Published: University of Sofia, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:This study determined the effect of personalisation of instruction on the anxie-ty in mathematics word problems of 450 senior secondary school year two stu-dents in Nigeria within the blueprint of quasi-experimental research of Solo-mon four non-equivalent control group design. It also examined the influence of ability level on anxiety in mathematics word problems and personalisation was accomplished by incorporating selected information with students' per-sonal preferences into their mathematics word problems. Anxiety in mathemat-ics word problems was measured by the mathematics word problems anxiety questionnaire and data collected for the study were analysed using the inde-pendent samples t-test, paired samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. The re-sults showed significant main effect of personalization of instruction on stu-dents' anxiety in mathematics word problems whereas no significant main ef-fect of ability level was found on the dependent measure. Personalisation of instruction was found to have reduced students' anxiety in mathematical word problems.
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