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To examine how affective factors—including self-efficacy, task value beliefs, epistemological beliefs, and anxiety—influence high school students' perceptions of mathematics difficulty.

January 1, 2015Open Access

Why High School Students Feel Mathematics Difficult? An Exploration of Affective Beliefs

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To examine how affective factors—including self-efficacy, task value beliefs, epistemological beliefs, and anxiety—influence high school students' perceptions of mathematics difficulty.
Conducted a questionnaire survey among a random sample of 51 standard IX high school students.
Assessed student-reported mathematics expectancies, task value beliefs, self-efficacy, epistemological beliefs, goal orientation, interest, and anxiety.
Eighty-eight percent of students reported hating mathematics, while only 6% reported liking it, primarily citing instructional factors and conceptual difficulty.
Twenty percent of students rated mathematics as very difficult, 54% as medium difficulty, and 10% as easy, with 42% failing to identify problem-solving methods for textbook tasks.
A substantial proportion of students utilized blind learning strategies and exhibited maladaptive self-efficacy and epistemological beliefs.

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KGK. Abdul GafoorUniversity of Calicut AKAbidha Kurukkan

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Survey reveals pervasive negative attitudes and maladaptive self-efficacy beliefs in ninth-grade mathematics students, indicating instructional barriers drive subject difficulty.

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Gafoor et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a102e4dd13714ec96ff53aa https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.18880.12800

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Survey reveals pervasive negative attitudes and maladaptive self-efficacy beliefs in ninth-grade mathematics students, indicating instructional barriers drive subject difficulty.

Why High School Students Feel Mathematics Difficult? An Exploration of Affective Beliefs

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Why High School Students Feel Mathematics Difficult? An Exploration of Affective Beliefs

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