An Investigation Into The Epistemic Beliefs About Mathematics Of Senior 2 Students In High School

The Mathematical epistemic beliefs of students refer to the students' simple idea or opinion about Mathematical knowledge and the process of knowledge learning,which belongs to belief systems.It includes two belief systems about Mathematical knowledge and Mathematical learning.A lot of researches have shown that the Mathematical epistemic beliefs of the students have an direct or indirect impact on their Mathematical learning.The investigation into the students' Mathematics epistemic beliefs is still a hot topic.The research is based on the theory and reality demands.In combination with the senior 2 students' actual situation in high school,it tries to know more about the senior 2 students basic situation of Mathematical epistemic beliefs by doing the questionnaire and interviews from the aspect of sex?household register?score,and analyses their influencing factor at the same time.According to the questionnaire and personal interviews,the basic situations of senior 2 students' Mathematics epistemic beliefs are as follows:(1)There is no remarkable difference between dimensions in terms of gender,but the overall level is not very ideal,which belongs to superior middling.(2)As for the household register,students live in downtown and countryside both have unsatisfactory results of Mathematics epistemic beliefs dimension,which are higher than the middle on the whole and there is no great difference between dimensions in different household register.(3)Senior 2 students have great different and extremely different study achievements in the overall beliefs and the dimension of knowledge system beliefs,knowledge stability beliefs,learning ability beliefs and learning method beliefs in terms of study achievement.There is an extremely significant difference between the upper and lower level students in overall beliefs;there is a significant difference between upper and lower level students in the knowledge system beliefs dimension;there is a great difference between middle and lower level students;as for the knowledge stability beliefs dimension,there is a significant difference between upper and middle students,the same to upper and lower level students:in the dimension of learning ability beliefs.there is a significant difference between upper level and middle level students,the same to upper level and lower level students;in the dimension of learning method beliefs,there is a significant difference between upper and lower level students,there is a marked difference between middle and lower level students.Finally,the research analyses the source of differences on the Mathematical epistemic beliefs between the senior 2 students in high school and put forward teaching suggestions on how to improve their beliefs.