TITLE:
A Comparison Study between Active and Passive Students in Intensive Mathematics I Course
AUTHORS:
Grace Lau Chui Ting, Tang Howe Eng, Lee Siaw Li, Hazfina Binti Mohamed Idris
KEYWORDS:
Learning Styles, Learning Behaviours, Classroom Participation, Mathematics, Teaching and Learning
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.5,
May
19,
2023
ABSTRACT: Intensive Mathematics I (MAT037) is a basic
mathematics course that is offered for pre-diploma students at Universiti
Teknologi MARA (UiTM). The pre-diploma
programme is a UiTM initiative that offers a special path for students
who have completed the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) but do not meet the
minimal requirements to further their studies at public universities. These
students will be given the opportunity to apply to study at the diploma level
in any of the UiTM faculties of their choice through the pre-diploma programme.
MAT037 is designed to enhance the fundamentals of mathematics to prepare
students for the diploma courses. This course content includes arithmetic operations, algebra, polynomials,
equations, functions, indices, and logarithms. It also covers sequence,
business mathematics, statistics, and applications of mathematics in basic
business, finance, and investments. Based on
the results of MAT037 for the past five semesters, the statistics showed that there were always a number of students who failed to perform. Therefore,
this study aims to find out whether students’
involvement in the learning process (actively or passively) correlates with their
mathematics (MAT037) performance.
Pre-diploma students at the UiTM Sarawak Branch, Mukah campus were the target population.
A total of 175 students took part in this study. This research adopted
the quantitative approach, and the correlational and quasi-experimental research designs were
employed in this study. The questionnaire
survey method was a measuring instrument for data collection. The data
collected was analyzed using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS). The results indicated that the correlation was statistically
significant and that there was a moderate positive correlation between students’
involvement in the learning process and their MAT037 performance.