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College of Education Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitude in Terms of Usefulness, Confidence and Enjoyment towards Geometry by Gender

Anas Seidu Salifu 1 , Michael Johnson Nabie 2 , Jones Apawu 2 *
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1 Senior Tutor, Department of Mathematics & ICT, E.P. College of Education, Bimbilla, GHANA2 Department of Mathematics Education, University of Education, Winneba, GHANA* Corresponding Author
Contemporary Mathematics and Science Education, 2(2), July 2021, ep21012, https://doi.org/10.30935/conmaths/11110
Submitted: 12 January 2021, Published: 23 July 2021
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This study investigated gender differences in pre-service teachers’ attitude towards geometry in Northern Region of Ghana. The research design was descriptive cross-sectional survey. A concurrent mixed-methods approach was adopted using both closed and open-ended questionnaire items. The population for the study was one thousand, six hundred and sixty-nine (1669) level 200 Pre-service Teachers (PSTs). The sample composed of two hundred and forty (240), comprising 120 PSTs each of female and male. The sampling procedure was convenient, stratified and simple random. The instrument used was 32 item Utley Geometry Attitude Scales (UGAS) that was developed by Utley (2007) and 4 opened ended questions. Statistically significant difference was detected between the male and female in their responses to usefulness of learning geometry, confidence to learning geometry and enjoyment of learning geometry which all favored the male PSTs who showed positive attitude towards geometry.
Keywords: attitude, geometry, gender differences, usefulness, confidence, enjoyment, College of Education (CoE), Pre-service Teachers (PSTs)

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Salifu, A. S., Nabie, M. J., & Apawu, J. (2021). College of Education Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitude in Terms of Usefulness, Confidence and Enjoyment towards Geometry by Gender. Contemporary Mathematics and Science Education, 2(2), ep21012. https://doi.org/10.30935/conmaths/11110

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