期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：14
页码：103-115
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i14/3655
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Technical education has been highlighted as a focus component in developing more experts in Malaysia. The growth in numbers of expert in technical area for one country has been said as one of the indicator toward developed country. As a foundation to produce more experts technologist in technical area, mathematics has been identify as a major subject that technical students need to mastered. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine mathematics’ attitude among technical university students. The data were collected from 278 university technical students. The respondents were assigned to complete Student Attitude Survey (SAS). Later, the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and factor analysis. The finding shows there were four components extracted from the factor analysis. The findings significance to most mathematics educators in technical higher learning institution in order to have better view and readiness to plan their teaching method according to technical students attitude towards mathematics.
