A Study on Fijian Secondary School Students’ Anxiety Toward Mathematics, School Avoidance, and Academic Achievement

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research and analyze the secondary school students’ attitude toward Mathematics and their weak points of mathematical knowledge and thinking, in consideration with school avoidance and teachers’ level of perceiving the students’ issues. In the study, it is confirmed that 1) the class-related anxiety in Mathematics could affect the attendance rate, mutually influencing the tendency of school avoidance, 2) the anxiety for problem solving, teachers and surrounding people grows as much as they get promoted and 3) the level of understanding geometry remained very low. It is concluded that the school avoidance should be dealt with not only from the socioeconomic sector, but also from the school and teachers, especially teaching contents and method.

Author

• Hiroki Ishizaka, Naruto University of Education