Mathematics Achievement and Attitude Productivity in Junior High School

Abstract

To investigate the dependence of mathematics achievement and attitude on each other and other factors, achievement test scores and ratings of 2,368 13-year- old students who participated in the 1977-78 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were anal) zed. Achievement was significantly associated with attitudes, sex, ethnicity, father’s and mother’s education, verbal opportunities in the home, and frequency of mathematical practices, when the variables were statistical!) controlled for one another. Constructive mathematics attitudes were associated with achievement and the same factors except parent education. About 32% of the achievement variance and 8% of the attitude variance can be accounted for by the factors.