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Teaching Mathematics and its Applications Advance Access originally published online on May 15, 2009
Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 2009 28(2):77-87; doi:10.1093/teamat/hrp006
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Factors influencing the transition to university service mathematics: part 1 a quantitative study

Miriam Liston

National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL), and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Ireland

John O’Donoghue{dagger}

National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL), and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Ireland

{dagger}Email: John.ODonoghue{at}ul.ie.

Submitted January 2009; accepted April 2009

This article reports on a quantitative study carried out into the influence of affective variables, the role of conceptions of mathematics and approaches to learning on students in the transition to Service mathematics at the University of Limerick (UL). Questionnaires were distributed to three groups of first year students on Service mathematics programmes (degree courses where mathematics plays a part in the students’ studies but is not the main focus) at UL, at the beginning of the university academic year 2006/2007. Their attitudes, beliefs, self-concept, conceptions of mathematics and approaches to learning are examined and relationships between specific variables are reported on. The impact these concepts, as well as final secondary school mathematics exam results, have on performance are also discussed.

Miriam Liston graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and Mathematics. She completed her PhD in mathematics education in November 2008 and is now employed as a Project Officer for Mathematics in the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL) situated at the University of Limerick.

John O’Donoghue is the founder and co-director of the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning (NCE-MSTL) at the University of Limerick. He also holds the position of Associate Professor for Mathematics Education at the University of Limerick.


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