Examination of the relationship between secondary school students' mathematics motivations, attitudes and success

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the mathematics motivation, attitudes and achievements of 8th grade primary school students and to examine the change of this relationship according to gender, number of siblings, and parents education level. Purpose correlational survey model was used in the research. The population of the research is Gölhisar district in Burdur province. The research was applied to 252 8th grade students in 6 schools. In the study, the personal information form developed by the researcher was used to obtain the demographic information of the students. The Mathematics Motivation Scale (MME), which was adapted to Turkish by Aktan and Tezci (2013) and validated and reliable for primary school students, was used to determine students' mathematics motivation levels. The scale consists of 6 sub-dimensions: intrinsic goal orientation (3 items), extrinsic goal orientation (4 items), subject value (5 items), learning beliefs (5 items), self-efficacy (6 items), test anxiety (4 items). consists of. Mathematics Attitude Scale developed by Baykul (1990) was used to measure students' attitudes towards mathematics. While determining the mathematics success of the students, the grade point average of the 7th grade mathematics course was taken as a criterion. In the analysis of the data obtained in the research, descriptive analysis, Independent Groups t-Test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Analysis were used. According to the results obtained from the research, a positive, moderately significant relationship was found between mathematics motivation, attitude and achievement. Mathematics motivation and attitude were found to be independent of gender, number of siblings, and mother and father education level. It was determined that mathematics achievement differed significantly according to gender, education level of mother and father and was independent of the number of siblings variable.