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Linking Student-Athlete Achievement Motivation & Academic Success and Analyzing Mathematics as a Conbributing Factor
Skinner, Katelyn Rose, 1993-. - : Central Connecticut State University, 2018
Abstract: This study examined the relationships and factors in student-athlete achievement motivation and academic success and investigated mathematics as an interaction. The relationship of motivational orientation to academic performance and identification was investigated using a pair of factor analyses. The interaction between mathematics and student-athletes' achievement motivation and academic motivation was observed by an analysis of variance. Two motivational profiles were discovered within the student-athletes, Ambitious and Mathematically Sound. The results show that the student-athletes have an overall positive relationship with their mathematical beliefs. According to Zan and Di Martino (2007), the phenomenon of 'negative attitudes towards mathematics' is related to the learning of the discipline. From previous research, discipline is a foundation of a student-athlete's success, their attitudes and beliefs play an important role in their academic and athletic success, and those attitudes and beliefs also play an important role in learning mathematics. Many of the most prominent student-athletes seem to lack such motivation in the classroom (Simons, Van Rheenen, & Covington, 1999), and most athletes are highly motivated to succeed in the athletic domain, having been selected to participate in intercollegiate athletics because of their proven ability and desire to be victorious. The results of this study show that student-athletes display discipline in both athletics and academics and exhibit strong feelings towards their value and confidence in mathematics and showed low risk for mathematics anxiety. ; "Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Mathematics for Secondary Certified Educators."; Thesis advisor: Sally A. Lesik.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2018.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-43).
Keyword: Academic achievement.; College athletes.; Mathematics--Study and teaching; Motivation in education.
URL: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ccsutheses/id/2729
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