| Summary: | 碩士 === 台南應用科技大學 === 國際企業經營系碩士班 === 103 === In Taiwan, mathematics is a very important subject not only for students themselves but also for parents. In this condition, self-discipline becomes not the only factor affecting students’ learning attitudes because they usually have to face the pressure and expectation from parents. However, most of the students nowadays do not get good grades from exams coinciding with their hard work. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education had decided to extend the period of the compulsory education program from 9 years to 12 years. This may be a good opportunity to adjust students’ learning methods as well as change their parents’ attitudes toward this subject.
Our study was designed based on the theory of planned behavior to valuate the 9th graders’ behaviors in learning mathematics. We observed the students’ learning attitudes, subjective norms (referring to the effects from the peers or other people ), and perceived behavior control (meaning the self-regulation of the internal and external resources ) to evaluate which factor(s) had significantly affected the students’ intention to learn mathematics. After identifying the major factor(s), we expected to find a way to raise the students’ achievements in mathematics.
This study focuses on the 9th graders from three different junior high schools in the south of Taiwan , and 218 valid questionnaires were returned to us. The results showed that the improvements of all the three factors (attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control) could significantly enhance the students’ learning behavioral intention. Meanwhile, the actual behavior correlated with learning behavioral intention also exists positive significant effect.
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