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Educational Research and Reviews Volume 10 Number 13 10 July, 2015 ISSN 1990-3839 ABOUT ERR Educational Research and Reviews (ISSN 1990-3839) is published bi-monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals. Educational Research and Reviews (ERR) is an open access journal that publishes high- quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of education including education policies and management such as Educational experiences and mental health, the effect of land tenure system on resource management, Visualization skills and their incorporation into school curriculum, Gender, education and child labour etc. All articles published in ERR are peer-reviewed. Contact Us Editorial Office: [email protected] Help Desk: [email protected] Website: http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/ERR Submit manuscript online http://ms.academicjournals.me/ . Editors Dr. Peter W. Wong Southern Cross University Assoc. Prof. Manjula Vithanapathirana Australia. 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Educational Research and Reviews Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 13 10 July, 2015 ARTICLES Research Articles Investigation of high school students’ attitude and anxiety levels towards Mathematics in terms of some variables 1773 Şemsettin DURSUN Students’ opinions about the effect of value-themed short stories used in education 1781 Hülya Kasapoğlu Latent profile analysis of good citizenship of Rajabhat Universities’ students in the Northeast of Thailand 1789 Sunan Siphai and Boonchoom Srisa-ard Integrative review of social presence in distance education: Issues and challenges 1795 Xin Chen, Youjia Fang and Barbara Lockee Sixth graders and non-routine problems: Which strategies are decisive for success? 1807 Yeliz Yazgan Examining leisure boredom in high school students in Turkey 1817 Merve Beyza AKGUL Examination of the PISA 2009 reading skills and information and communication technology (ICT) use skills of Turkish students 1825 Tülin ACAR The effects of gender of private sports establishment administrators on job satisfaction: A case of Istanbul 1832 Mustafa Erol Educational Research and Reviews Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 1 3 10 Ju ly , 2015 ARTICLES Research Articles Developing a leveling framework of mathematical belief and mathematical knowledge for teaching of Indonesian pre-service teachers 1839 Ifada Novikasari and Didi Suryadi, Darhim Development of environmental knowledge, team working skills and desirable behaviors on environmental conservation of Matthayomsuksa 6 students using good science thinking moves method with metacognition techniques 1846 Charinrat Ladawan, Adisak Singseewo and Paitool Suksringarm Mainstreaming health and safety in schools: Practical insights from the teachers 1851 Antonio Burgos-Garcia Analysis on inclusion of social studies economy concepts in coursebooks 1861 Mustafa SEKER and Ahmet Emin OSMANOGLU Effect of use of caricatures on teaching vocabulary in teaching Turkish as foreign language 1876 Yakup TOPAL Vol. 10(13), pp. 1773-1780, 10 July, 2015 DOI: 10.5897/ERR2015.2206 Article Number: E54BCDE53983 Educational Research and Reviews ISSN 1990-3839 Copyright © 2015 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR Full Length Research Paper Investigation of high school students’ attitude and anxiety levels towards Mathematics in terms of some variables Şemsettin DURSUN *Batman University, Kozluk Vocational College, Batman*/Turkey. Received 03 April, 2015; Accepted 1 July, 2015 The purpose of this study was to investigate Turkish high school students’ attitude and anxiety levels towards mathematics. For this purpose, the methodology employed in this study was a descriptive study. The participants of the study consisted of 361 high school students from three different high school types from a province in Turkey during 2014-2015 fall term. The Mathematics Attitude Scale developed by Aşkar and the Mathematics Anxiety Assessment Scale adapted to Turkish by Akın et al. were used as the measuring instruments. The data was quantitatively analysed by using independent samples t-tests and one-way ANOVA. Findings showed that gender and class levels had no significant effect on the students’ attitude and anxiety levels towards mathematics, whereas school type had significant effect on the attitude and anxiety. Key words: Mathematics, anxiety, attitude, gender, school type, class level. INTRODUCTION Anxiety groups as state anxiety and trait anxiety. State anxiety reveals itself in a specific situation or time when it Anxiety is defined as a feeling which sometimes appears, it can point out a dangerous situation encourages people to carry out creative and positive potentially. Trait anxiety reveals an anxiety that doesn’t behaviors by motivating them in everyday life and appear with regard to a specific situation and individuals sometimes hinders such positive attitudes and generally who have this anxiety can be anxious in any situation creates uneasiness. According to theories with learning (Croft, 2000, cited in Dede, 2008). approach, anxiety is a feeling acquired via conditioned behavior and conveys the properties of stimulus. Not the source of anxiety but the volume and duration and also Mathematics anxiety the importance of outside challenge determine that anxiety is either a normal or pathological case (Ba şarır, Although mathematics studies depend on logic and 1990). Spielberger also categorizes the anxiety into two reasoning, it notices in many people as a profound E-mail: [email protected]. Authors agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License 1774 Educ. Res. Rev. emotionality. In this sense, mathematical thinking and Attitude emotional and affective perspective towards mathematics are incorporated (Hannula, 2005). In this context, anxiety Attitude is a tendency attributed to the individual and is one of the most pervasive issues which are related to regularly constitutes his/her thoughts, feelings and mathematics in affective domain (Balo ğlu and Koçak, behaviours related to the psychological incident. The 2006). Ashcraft and Faust (1994) define mathematics power of the attitude is equal to the total cognitive, anxiety as mental disorder, fear of mathematics and a sensational and behavioural aspects, which is high in fixed feeling of intense anger