Results revealed a negative relationship between mathematics interest (INTMAT) and mathematics performance, as well as ATTLNACT and mathematics performance in Thailand.
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However, school average mathematics interest, mathematics behaviour, and attitudes towards learning outcomes were the only three significant school-level variables with predicted decreases in scores for the Malaysian model.
However, school average mathematics interest (SINTMAT) was found to be negatively associated with mathematics performance, indicated by one standard deviation increase in SINTMAT, and associated with a decrease of mathematics performance of about 66 points.
In relation to this, a number of questions are worthwhile for future studies: Why do students in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand have a low level of performance but high levels of perseverance, mathematics interest, instrumental motivation, and mathematics behaviour?
There was not a significant increase in students' general ratings of mathematics interest, again ruling out a Hawthorne effect in which students broadly show change as a result of exposure to a new environment.
Students rated statements about mathematics interest (four items; Cronbach's alpha: pre =.74; post =.82), robotics interest (four items; Cronbach's alpha: pre =.73; post =.76), and the value of math in robotics (four items; Cronbach's alpha: pre =.66; post =.80).
Similarly, Hickey et al. ( 2001) showed that the use of The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury videodisc activity led to gains in students' mathematics interest, although these gains appeared to result both from the technology as well as from teachers' beliefs and instructional practices.
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