Science Curiosity as a Correlate of Academic Performance in Mathematics Education: Insights from Nigerian Higher Education

Abakpa, Benjamin Ogbole; Abah, Joshua Abah; Agbo-Egwu, Abel Okoh

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“…The study revealed that curiosity improves students' and, as well, predicts higher academic performance. The current study's findings, on the other hand, contradicted those of Abakpa et al [23]. They found a weak negative relationship between curiosity and academic performance among students, indicating that curiosity did not predict students' academic performance.…”

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“…In this particular study, both interest-specific epistemic curiosity and deprivation-specific epistemic curiosity significantly and positively predicted the academic performance of students. A study conducted in Nigeria by Abakpa et al [23] revealed a weak and negative relationship between curiosity and academic performance in students.…”

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Predictive Abilities of Curiosity, Creativity, and Motivation on Academic Performance of High School Students in Ghana

Mahama

Dramanu

Asamoah-Gyimah

2023

Education Research International

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The study looked at how learners innate possessions (motivation, curiosity, curiosity) affect their performance (science and mathematics). A total of 568 high school students were surveyed through a quantitative-correlational research design. Data for the study were gathered using an adapted curiosity measure, an adapted creativity measure, an adapted motivation measure, and an expert-developed academic performance measure. Multiple multivariate was used to test the hypothesis. The study revealed that students’ motivated behaviors, curious abilities, creative potentials jointly explained 15.5% change or variance in science score and 33.1% change or variance in mathematics score. In this sense, it is evident that students’ who become curious, creative, and motivated in their learning situation could improve upon their academic performance and achieve their academic goals. Therefore, school managers of high schools should call for intersubject workshops, as it is evident that science and mathematics are related. Furthermore, the Ghana Education Service should revise the way and manner in which it organizes professional development programs for practitioners in order to make them cross-curricular.

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Predictive Abilities of Curiosity, Creativity, and Motivation on Academic Performance of High School Students in Ghana

Mahama

Dramanu

Asamoah-Gyimah

2023

Education Research International

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“…It accurately describes the problem and experiences. Phenomenology has been widely used in educational research to gather experiences, views, and beliefs regarding teaching-learning, curriculum, pedagogical approaches and school environment (Abakpa, Agbo-Egwu, & Abah., 2017). Hence the students' experiences, and emotions while learning in mathematics classrooms can be well understood using a phenomenological lens.…”

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Student Perceptions and Experiences in Mathematics Classrooms: A Thematic Analysis

SYAMA SASIDHARAN,

JACQUELINE KAREEM

2023

IJISME

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Classroom experiences contribute to learners' perceptions and interest in a particular subject. The present study aims to understand students' perception of mathematics learning by exploring their classroom experiences. The study sample consisted of 17 eighth-grade students in English-speaking urban schools in South India. The data was collected through a semi-structured interview schedule. The thematic analysis presents five themes – student personal factors, teacher-related, content-related, classroom environment and utility value. Teachers’ characteristics and mathematics content were the essential factors contributing to students' perceptions and experiences. The study highlights the utility value of the content to help students see the application of the subject in real-world situations. Understanding students' perception of mathematics learning would help to choose appropriate content and teaching methods in the curriculum. The study highlights the need for educational and psychological interventions, focusing on student-teacher engagement and curriculum development to enhance mathematics learning.

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“…Naturalist intelligence has no significant effect on students' critical thinking skills and curiosity [29]. Abakpa et al [66] showed that scientific curiosity and academic performance were negatively correlated.…”

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Exploring curiosity and critical thinking skills for prospective biology teacher

Nurdiana¹,

Hunaepi²,

Ikhsan³

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IJERE

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Curiosity and critical thinking as one of the characteristics and skills developed in the goals of Indonesian education and 21st-century learning. Curiosity is a driving force for intrinsic motivation to explore behavior and gain new understanding and knowledge through observation. Curiosity and critical thinking skills are the needs of every individual to explore sciences such as biology. This study’s aim is to explore the curiosity and critical thinking skills of prospective biology teacher students. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a survey method. The sample of this study amounted to 150 students who were taken using purposive random sampling. Curiosity data was collected using science curiosity in learning environments (SCILE) and critical thinking skills were collected using the developed instrument. The data obtained were analyzed using the partial least square program to determine the contribution of gender to scientific curiosity (SC) and critical thinking skills. The results of the analysis show that gender contributes directly to critical thinking skills through SC on the stretching indicator. In general, SC needs to do research to find out the contribution of each critical thinking.

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Science Curiosity as a Correlate of Academic Performance in Mathematics Education: Insights from Nigerian Higher Education

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Predictive Abilities of Curiosity, Creativity, and Motivation on Academic Performance of High School Students in Ghana

Predictive Abilities of Curiosity, Creativity, and Motivation on Academic Performance of High School Students in Ghana

Student Perceptions and Experiences in Mathematics Classrooms: A Thematic Analysis

Exploring curiosity and critical thinking skills for prospective biology teacher

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