Saeed Ariapooran, Mansoor Karimi,
Volume 8, Issue 42 (3-2021)
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of mathematics anxiety in the outbreak of COVID-19 and role of mathematics motivated strategies for learning (cognitive, metacognitive, informational and non-informational resources management) and mathematic resilience in discriminating the membership in high school students (with low academic performance) with low and high mathematics anxiety. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this study consisted of all male high school students of Bahar city from Hamadan province (N=621). The study sample consisted of 247 male students who were selected by randomized cluster sampling. Mathematics Motivated Strategies for Learning (Liu & Lin, 2012), mathematics resilience (Kooken et al., 2016) and Mathematics Anxiety (Bai et al., 2009) scales were used for data collection. One-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise discriminant analysis were used for data analysis. Descriptive analysis indicated that 67.21% of students had low mathematics anxiety in the outbreak of COVID-19. According to One-sample t-test, students were in a low status in terms of using mathematical learning strategies and high status in mathematics anxiety. There was a negative relationship between mathematical learning strategies (cognitive, meta-cognitive, informational and non-informational resources management) and mathematics anxiety. Also, only the role of metacognitive strategies and mathematical resilience in predicting group membership of students with high and low math anxiety was significant. Teaching mathematics learning strategies and mathematics resilience to students with low mathematics achievements and incorporating mathematical teaching methods based on metacognition strategies and mathematics resilience into in-service programs for mathematics teachers, will be useful for decreasing students' mathematics anxiety in the outbreak of COVID-19.
Dr Ramin Habibi Kaleybar, Dr Abolfazl Farid, Mrs Fatemeh Alipour,
Volume 11, Issue 45 (12-2022)
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out the experiences of Z generation undergraduate students who had high resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method of the present study was qualitative and phenomenological. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 8 female students of Tabriz Farhangian University who were studying in the academic year 1400-1401 and were purposefully selected. Recorded interviews were recorded in writing and analyzed using a seven-step Colaizzi method. Analysis of students' lived experiences led to the identification, classification and extraction of the main categories of "individual factors", "social factors" and "environmental factors". In addition to the main categories mentioned, sub-categories of individual factors including emotion regulation skills, positive psychological constructs (optimism, hope and determination), self-regulation skills, strong religious beliefs, realism and lack of perfectionism, application of problem-solving skills, flexibility, meaning in life and social factors (interpersonal relationships) including social support of family and friends , maintaining relationships through social networks, observational learning and alternative experiences, and finally environmental factors (infrastructure and facilities) including experiencing difficult conditions and lack of facilities, previous positive experiences Extracted in schools and other institutions. The findings of this study could provide a clear picture of the factors affecting the improvement and promotion of resilience
