doi: 10.7763/IJIET.2014.V4.450
An Instrument to Measure Math Attitudes of Computer Science Students
Parveen J. Ali
,
Sanwar Ali ,
Waleed E. Farag
Abstract
Although mathematics is one of the essential courses for students in determining college majors, for many students in postsecondary education, mathematics is seen more as a frightening ordeal than a valuable learning experience. Computer science students explicitly use mathematics in many computer science courses. This demands that computer science majors have in-depth math background to become successful in a computer science career. This paper is a report of the initial development of a new instrument to measure computer science students’ attitudes towards mathematics. The reliability coefficient, Cronbach alpha value, for the instrument in our study is found to be 0.811 and coefficients for four subscales are ranged from 0.812 to 0.915. These values seem to be very promising for this study.
Keywords
- Cronbach coefficients
- enjoyment of math
- math anxiety
- math attitude
- math relevancy
- self-efficacy
- survey instrument
How to Cite
Parveen J. Ali, Sanwar Ali, and Waleed E. Farag, "An Instrument to Measure Math Attitudes of Computer Science Students," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 459-462, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIET.2014.V4.450
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Copyright © 2014 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).