PENGARUH MATHEMATICAL BELIEFS TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA SMA

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of mathematical beliefs towards mathematics achievement of high school students. Mathematical beliefs are beliefs of students towards mathematics. This research will be seen how the beliefs of students towards mathematics drawn from students’ beliefs towards mathematics as a subject, and beliefs in math problems. This study is descriptive correlational research using quantitative approach. The data source of this research is the students in a class at SMAN 1 Rambah. The data collected is data about mathematical beliefs through questionnaires and data of students’ mathematics learning. Data were analyzed using correlation and regression analysis to determine the influence and mathematical beliefs relationship to the student’ mathematics achievement. The whole process is assisted data analysis using Microsoft Office Excel 2013 and SPSS 20.0 for Windows. The results showed that there was no significant effect of mathematical beliefs towards mathematics achievement of students.