Students’ Attitude and Perceptions on Teachers’ Comments: Does it associate with their Interest on Particular Subjects? A Case of Morogoro Municipality
- May 13, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Education
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
MSEMO, Emanuel Mbazi1*, EDWARD, Mariafelista Massawe2
1Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Computational Sciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
2Department of Education, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Abstract: – This study explored the relationship between students’ attitude and perception towards teachers’ comments and their interest on particular subjects. The study was conducted as a case study of Morogoro municipal in Tanzania, and employed a cross sectional design with a sample of size n=127 students from two schools. Schools in Morogoro municipal were clustered into two clusters (old schools and newly ward secondary schools) and one school from each cluster was randomly selected. Respondents were chosen within a cluster using simple random sampling. Information on study variables was obtained using questionnaire and to establish the relationship, a chi square test of association was performed. Results showed a significant relationship between students’ attitude and perception towards teachers’ comments and their interest on particular subjects. Choice of students on whether to engage on a particular subject depends on how they approach and interpret the feedback given by teachers. This suggests that, it is important to create a condunsive means of communicating feedback to students so as to achieve a learning environment that ignite and sustain student interests to subjects for greater achievements and performances.
Keywords: Students’ attitude and perception, Teachers’ comments, choice, interests
I. INTRODUCTION
In achieving life goals, human beings need to make choices among alternatives available for a better utilization of scarce resources. Mostly, people tend to choose things that are of interest or that they perceive that they are of interest to them. It is widely believed that education should ignite interest and pave a way towards making wise carrier choices. According to [2], interest can be described as preference to engage in some types of activities rather than others. [4] Explains that, being interested in something can mean that we care about it, that it is important to us, and that we have (mostly) positive feelings towards it, and provided a thoroughly literature review to show that interest plays a major role in learning and academic achievement.
