Ortaokul Son Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Matematik Başarısını Etkileyen Faktörlerin İncelenmesi: Nijer-Zinder Örneği

Abstract

This work aims at putting forth the effects of personal, sosioeconomic and attitude factors and the level of effect for each factor on the performance of final yers students i the junior high school in mathematics. The samples of the survey in this work was taken from the final students -864- (325 boys and 539 gils) of junior high school in the province of Zinder in Niger, in the second term of 2016-2017 academic year. In the given analysis, the SPSS 1.5 packaged program was used and the data too was derived from the implemented questionnaire program on the students. While the scores of the students in mathematics according to the questionnaire is variable, t-test, one way variance analysis, factor and regression analysis were used to derive the data obtained. However, the equalization of the variable scores was done using the Levene test system. According to the findings of this work on one hand the major three factors that has serious effect on the students’ performance in mathematics were; educational level of parents computer and internet usage respectively. On the other hand the findings from the students indicates that, educational level of the mother, sex, monthly salary, number of siblings, integrated or broken home, Telephone usage, daily chore/ working hours were not effective factors on their performance.