PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
The mathematics attitudes and perceptions survey: New data and alignment with other recent findings
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Student attitudes about and perceptions of mathematics influence their success and learning, andhave been of interest for many years in mathematics education. The Mathematics Attitudes andPerceptions Survey is a short, validated Likert-scale instrument that measures confidence, interest,relation of mathematics to the real world, persistence in problem solving, growth mindset, use ofsense-making behaviours, and the extent of other novice attitudes towards mathematics. In thisposter, we share the complete instrument and its categories, a brief summary of the developmentprocess and resulting model statistics, as well as scores across different populations measured sofar (3 institutions, variety of courses). The student responses include new data since thepublication of the instrument as well as additional analysis of groups, in particular a comparisonof attitudes between genders that matches with recent results relating STEM persistence toattitudes and beliefs (Ellis et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2016).Key words: