Author(s)

Kohei Okado¹, Noriyuki Kida², Takeshi Sakai³

¹Vories Gakuen Omi Brotherhood Junior High School, Shiga, Japan.
²Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
³Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan.

This study explored correlation between changes of consciousness and academic achievement about mathematics across the 3 years on junior high school in Japan. The purpose of this study was to develop and assess the item of consciousness about mathematics in junior high school. For that reason a 3-year longitudinal survey was conducted in a private junior high school for three generations. First, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted, which extracted two factors: “Interest score” and “Quantitative learning score”. Then, correlations between the two factors and academic achievement were investigated. Results indicated that Interest score had a strong correlation with academic achievement for mathematics and the Quantitative learning score had a weak correlation with academic achievement. These results suggest that educational activities focusing on the consciousness about mathematics are useful for improving mathematical education of junior high school students.

Junior High School, Mathematics Education, Interest, Quantitative Learning

Okado, K. , Kida, N. and Sakai, T. (2019) Three-Year Longitudinal Survey of Changes in Consciousness about Mathematics in Junior High School Students and Its Relationship with Academic Achievement. Psychology, 10, 46-61. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.101004.