MATHEMATICS ANXIETY AND ITS EFFECTS ON ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

Derling Jose Mendoza Velazco,Edith Josefina Liccione,Elizeth Mayrene Flores Hinostroza,Magda Francisca Cejas Martínez

doi:10.22342/jme.12.3.13205.547-562

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The research objective was to describe the levels of anxiety and their effects on performance manifested by the mathematics students of the engineering faculty of the National University of Chimborazo UNACH during the 2020-1 academic semester. The study is in the quantitative paradigm with a descriptive exploratory design. The total sample consisted of 120 students studying mathematics, which are at different levels and careers of the engineering faculty. The sample selection was of an intentional non-probabilistic type and had as inclusion criteria not having been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. The Brief Anxiety Situations and Responses Inventory was applied (ASRI-B). The ASRI-B was sent to students by email to facilitate data collection. The two-factor ANOVA (mathematics and comprehension) uses to analyze the research results. It's allowed to find statistically significant differences in the grasp of the contents presented by the teachers in a virtual way for the cognitive and physiological response system and the general level of anxiety, as well as in situational areas of evaluation anxiety and anxiety in everyday situations, during the academic closure in the quarantine season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tingkat kecemasan dan pengaruhnya terhadap kinerja mahasiswa yang dimanifestasikan oleh mahasiswa matematika di Fakultas Teknik National University of Chimborazo UNACH pada tahun ajaran akademik 2020-1
These beliefs are based on the Pygmalion effect of Islam et al (2020), this effect is generated in a coherent relationship between the negative attitude of students towards mathematics and the result they obtain
According to Hernández and Mendoza (2018), the quantitative methodology is based on three axes, first in obtaining or collecting quantitative data, which are subsequently analyzed in a descriptive way, secondly a support or analytical contribution is developed through the search for information that complements the quantitative phase, its third axis consists of contrasting the results through the integration, interpretation and preparation of a final report or conclusion

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Introduction

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tingkat kecemasan dan pengaruhnya terhadap kinerja mahasiswa yang dimanifestasikan oleh mahasiswa matematika di Fakultas Teknik National University of Chimborazo UNACH pada tahun ajaran akademik 2020-1. It is lived as a process of development of powers in a specific environment that qualifies, conditions, modifies the original being These circumstances make it necessary to maintain an adaptive tension that adapts the actions to the environment in which they develop, based on the individual's own characteristics. At the university level, learning mathematics has been one of the main columns on which the educational system in Ecuador rests, which can be verified through academic plans and curricula in all engineering majors In engineering schools, it is considered legendary math difficulty (Prahmana et al, 2019; Liu et al, 2020).

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