HomeIAMURE International Journal of Educationvol. 2 no. 1 (2012)

Attitude of A-Level Medicine (ALM) Students towards Learning the Mathematical Subjects

Nor Faradilah Mahad | Fathiah Abdullah | Siti Aisyah Abdul Kadir

 

Abstract:

This research is conducted to study the attitude of A-level Medicine (ALM) students towards learning the Mathematical subjects and there are two research questions in the study. Firstly, what is the attitude of ALM students towards learning the Mathematical subjects? Secondly, is there any difference between male students’ attitude and female students’ attitude towards learning the Mathematical subjects? The sampling method used in this research is random sampling. The researchers selected the survey method as the research design and one set of questionnaires consisted of 30 items as the instruments. Some 95 respondents consist of 37 male students and 58 female students of ALM programme of International Education College (INTEC) were chosen randomly. The researchers used the 5 point Likert Scale in order to determine the attitude of the ALM students towards learning the Mathematical subjects. The data were analyzed by using mean test, one sample t-test and independent t-test by using SPSS version 20 software. The finding showed that the students have positive attitude towards learning the Mathematical subjects and there is difference between male students’ attitude and female students’ attitude towards learning the Mathematical subjects. The finding showed that female students have more positive attitude than the male students.