수학 학습 흥미 하위요인별 검사 도구 개발과 적용

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the development of an instrument for measuring high school students’ interest in mathematics learning and to identify the differences in their mathematics learning interest in terms of general characteristics such as gender, grade, and academic discipline. In order to develop the instrument, firstly, we reviewed the related literature on math learning interest and extracted the items used for the measuring of the interest in math learning. Secondly, the nouns and verbs in the extracted items were categorized, as some items being corrected and supplemented, and representative items were selected. Lastly, the validity of the items was identified and sub-factors were named. An independent sample t-test and ANOVA analysis were conducted to identify the differences in the math learning interest according to the students’ general characteristics such as gender, grade, academic discipline. As a result, the four sub-factors were identified as follows: realized individual interest, potential individual interest, subject-related situational interest and extra curricular situational interest. It was found that there were slight differences in none subject-related situational interest among the sub-factors according to gender and academic discipline. Seen from grade level, none subject-related situational interest of the third graders was found to be higher, compared with that of the first and second graders. This instrument will be able to measure personal and situational interests in math learning discretely and will be used as an index to the development of interest in detail.