Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017
CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN MATHEMATICS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
B. Janakiraman, Dr. S. Leo Stanly
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<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The present Study is an attempt to construct and standardize a tool for measuring the Learning difficulties in Mathematics of individual students in different dimensions which include lack of interest in learning Mathematics, teaching methodology of Mathematics, syllabus in Mathematics and basic knowledge in Mathematics. A pilot study among 100 students including 50 Male and 50 Female, was conducted in Kancheepuram District. The reliability score was found to be 0.873 and content validity was established getting opinions of the experts and scholars in the field of education. Percentile norms of the tool</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">was also planned well to appraise the Scores of Learning difficulties in Mathematics scale of students.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; color: red;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The final tool contains 60 items including 25 positive items and 35 Negative items.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The minimum score of the scale is 60 and maximum score is 300.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:.3in;margin-bottom: 10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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B. Janakiraman, Dr. S. Leo Stanly, CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN MATHEMATICS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE‾7 | JULY -2017