Their Influence in the Achievement and Attitude of Students Towards Mathematics Ma. Christina B. Balsams The study investigated the achievement and attitude towards mathematics of the second year high school students in the Special Program in the Arts and the Basic Education Curriculum in Gingko City Comprehensive National High School, Gingko City. The answers to the following problems ever sought: The comparison of the mathematics achievement of the students when they are grouped according to
Special Program in the Arts and the Basic Education Curriculum; the comparison of the mathematics achievement Of the students in the Special Program in the Arts and in the Basic Education Curriculum when they are grouped according to their mathematics ability level; and the comparison in the attitude Of the students towards mathematics in the Special Program in the Arts and in the Basic Education Curriculum. The descriptive research method was used in the study. A 30. Tem validated achievement test was used to determine the level of achievement of the dents; while the go-item mathematics attitude scale of Awaken (1979) was used to determine the attitude of the students toward mathematics. The sixty -eight respondents were the second year students enrolled in the Special Program in the Arts and the Basic Education Curriculum. Ability grouping of the students was based trot their final grades in mathematics during first year.
Two groups were identified – the high ability group and the average ability group. High ability students were those students whose grades ranges from and above, while the average ability students were those whose grades ranges from 80 to 85 (Depend memo # 79 s. 2003). The data gathered were interpreted and analyzed using the mean, standard deviation, t-test and the two-way analysis of variance (NOVA)_ The following findings were revealed.
There was a significant difference in the mathematics achievement between those second year high school students in the Special program in the Arts and those high school students in the Basic Education curriculum. Although both groups have very satisfactory performance in mathematics, a difference was observed in their mean scores favoring the second year high school students from the Special Program in the Arts.
There was a difference in the mathematics achievement of the second year high school students in the Special Program in the Arts and the second year high school students I the Basic Education Curriculum when the students oeuvre grouped according to their mathematics ability level. There was no difference in the attitude of the students in the Special Program in the Arts and the students in the Basic Education Curriculum towards mathematics. The students in both groups have favorable attitude towards mathematics.
