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标题：Early Undergraduate Emirati Female Students’ Beliefs about Learning Mathematics Using Technology
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作者：Shashidhar Belbase*
期刊名称：European Journal of Educational Research
电子版ISSN：2165-8714
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：1235-1255
DOI：10.12973/eu-jer.9.3.1235
语种：English
出版社：Eurasian Society of Educational Research Association
摘要：Covid-19 has accelerated the speed of technocratic transformation in teaching and learning. Previous researches on whether technology enhances studentsrsquo; motivation towards learning or burdens them with additional layer of anxiety in learning the nitty gritty of technology itself have mixed results. The purpose of this study was to explore early undergraduate studentsrsquo; beliefs about learning mathematics with technology. These research participants were first-year female undergraduate students in a public university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study comprised of phase one with qualitative task-based interviews with four female first-year undergraduate students. Phase two included a quantitative belief survey with a sample of 62 students from the same institution. I constructed four major belief categories from the iterative process of interview data analysisndash; technology for computing and graphing, technology for speed and accuracy, technology for a short-cut but not for meaning, and affective aspects of beliefs. The quantitative survey result demonstrated that a majority of participants (about 75.8%) were found to be using some kinds of technological tools while learning mathematics. About 90% of them reported using a calculator while learning mathematics. A majority of participants (54.9%) believed that technology helps them in learning mathematics, and about 50% of them also believed that the use of technology improves their learning of mathematics.