Author(s)

Xingjuan Zhao ¹, Yuxuan Zha ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhejiang Business Technology Institute, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315012, China

Corresponding Author

Xingjuan Zhao

ABSTRACT

Higher vocational colleges play an important role in the national economy, and higher vocational students are the backup force for the country to cultivate higher vocational technology and applied technology. However, there is a certain distance between the actual mathematical level of vocational college students and social expectations. Students generally have problems such as weariness, truancy, and lack of concentration in learning, which are mainly reflected in their poor mathematical performance. Performance influencing factors play a crucial role in students' learning, so mathematics performance influencing factors are also a topic that has been widely concerned and discussed. This paper proposed to use analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the influencing factors of mathematical performance. Students' mathematical performance was influenced by both internal and external factors, including teachers, families, society, and so on. The most basic factor was the internal factors of students, so people needed to conduct in-depth research on internal reasons in order to better promote the development of students. The experimental results of this article indicated that 65 students believed that their cooperative ability was very weak, accounting for 46.4% of the total. It could be seen that poor cooperative ability was also an important factor affecting mathematical performance.

KEYWORDS

Math Scores, Hierarchical Analysis, External Factors, Internal Factors, Development of Higher Vocational Colleges

CITE THIS PAPER

Xingjuan Zhao, Yuxuan Zha, Investigation on the Influencing Factors of College Students' Math Scores in Higher Vocational Colleges. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 24-33. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.060904.

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