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Tossavainen, Timo; Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Johansson, Monica – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
We examine a group (N = 88) of Swedish first-year engineering students, their motivation, self-efficacy, and beliefs about the nature of mathematics, and how these relate to their task performance in mathematics. In our data, engineering students who emphasized the exact reasoning in their view of mathematics performed significantly better in a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Motivation, Value Judgment, Engineering Education