The Relationship of cerebral hemisphericity and attitude towards maths and science on students achievement in secondary school
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2009-06
Authors
Karuppan, Sarojeni Devi Alp
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether any relationship existed between
brain hemisphericity and students' achievement in maths and science subject. This study
- also tries to investigate whether attitude towards maths and science subject moderates the
relationship between hemisphericity and students' achievement in maths and science
subject in school. This study was conducted in one of the girls' secondary public school
in Penang, Malaysia. A total of 39 secondary students from Form 4 PAl were chosen to
participate in this study. The questionnaire developed by Oldfield (1971) at Edinburgh
University was used to access the dominance of the students' brain hemisphericity.
Attitude towards math and science was measured using Survey of School Attitudes
(Intermediate) questionnaire developed by Hogan (1975). Students' achievement was
based on the maths and science performance test marks in school. The results of this
study indicated that: (1) the independent-samples t-test conducted to compare the maths
and science achievement for left and right cerebral hemisphericity showed that there were
no significant differences in left and right cerebral hemisphericity of the students. (2) a
hierachical multiple regression analysis showed that there was no moderating effect of
attitude towards maths or science on the relationship between students' brain
hemisphericity and their achievement in maths or science. Practical implications for
teachers are also presented so that appropriate adjustments can be made in both teaching
methodology and curriculum development.
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Cerebral hemisphericity , Attitude towards maths and science , Students achievement