Predicting Growth Rate of Students’ Achievement in Mathematics Using Mathematical Growth Model

  • Obasi C
  • Ugo C
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Students’ mathematics achievements in secondary school have an influential effect on their performance in university and their future careers. There are numerous innovative teaching strategies which are promising and have shown to improve students’ achievement in mathematics; one will wonder if there will be corresponding achievement growth in mathematics. Therefore, this paper predicts growth rate of students’ achievement in mathematics using mathematical growth model. A developmental survey design was employed where students’ WAEC mathematics achievement results from 1991-2016 were collected from the Development Division, West African Examination Council (WAEC) Lagos, Nigeria. The Logistic growth mathematical model was used to compute predicted achievement growth rate. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was also used to plot the graph of the achievement data from 1991 to 2016. The result indicates that the predicted growth rate of students’ achievement in mathematics is approximately increased by 25.3% per year. This shows a weak upward trend in predicted rate of achievement at credit level and consequently indicates unsteady sustainability in mathematics achievement as well as economic growth. It is recommended among others that there should be investigation into factors responsible for the weak and unsteady achievement growth in WAEC general mathematics in Nigeria. Also, effective teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels of schooling should be ensured by all concerned in other to sustain the achievement growth in the subject. Makalah ini memprediksi tingkat perkembangan prestasi siswa dalam matematika menggunakan model pertumbuhan matematis. Penelitian ini menggunakan developmental survey design Data diperoleh dari hasil prestasi siswa WAEC matematika dari 1991-2016 yang melalui Divisi Pengembangan, Dewan Ujian Afrika Barat (WAEC) Lagos, Nigeria. Model matematika pertumbuhan logistik digunakan untuk menghitung prediksi tingkat pertumbuhan pencapaian. Paket Statistik untuk Ilmu Sosial (SPSS) juga digunakan untuk memplot grafik data pencapaian dari tahun 1991 hingga 2016. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa tingkat pertumbuhan yang diprediksi dari prestasi siswa dalam matematika meningkat sekitar 25,3% per tahun. Hal ini menunjukkan tren peningkatan yang lemah dalam memprediksi tingkat pencapaian pada tingkat kredit dan akibatnya menunjukkan keberlanjutan yang tidak stabil dalam pencapaian matematika serta pertumbuhan ekonomi. Disarankan antara lain bahwa harus ada investigasi terhadap faktor-faktor yang bertanggung jawab atas pertumbuhan prestasi yang lemah dan tidak stabil dalam matematika umum WAEC di Nigeria. Juga, pengajaran dan pembelajaran matematika yang efektif di semua tingkat sekolah harus dipastikan oleh semua pihak yang terkait untuk mempertahankan pertumbuhan prestasi dalam mata pelajaran.

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Obasi, C., & Ugo, C. (2018). Predicting Growth Rate of Students’ Achievement in Mathematics Using Mathematical Growth Model. SJME (Supremum Journal of Mathematics Education), 2(2), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.35706/sjme.v2i2.1319

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