Mathematics Teacher’s Behaviour and Student’s Anxiety: A Study at Secondary Level

Abstract

A person's behaviour is a response to his surroundings that he exhibits at different times. Behaviour is defined as one's conduct, manner of carrying oneself, or what one does, particularly in reaction to external stimuli. The study's goal is to investigate secondary school students' perceptions of teacher conduct and anxiety in mathematics. The secondary school pupils in Lahore made up the study's population. 250 secondary school students made up the study's sample. The researcher created the questionnaire. Following data collection, the information was organized and subsequently examined using software (SPSS). The data was first entered into SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and categorised and classified numerically, such as 1, 2, 3. The study's conclusions showed that students' nervousness and their opinions of the behaviour of their maths lecturers were related to the degree of agreement.

Keywords: mathematics teachers, behaviour, students’ anxiety, secondary level