A Study On The Effect Of Mathematics Gender Stereotypes On The Mathematics Achievement Of First-year High School Students

Mathematics is the basic tool for the study and research of modern science and technology,which plays an irreplaceable role in the development of human history and social life.To learn mathematics well and improve citizens' mathematical literacy is the way to promote the development of modern social science and technology and the promotion of the comprehensive national strength.However,in reality,students' math scores are generally low,and students' attitude toward math is more negative than that of other subjects,especially for girls.Women are also at a significant disadvantage in math-related fields.But it doesn't mean girls are worse at math than boys.In society,people have a gender stereotype in mathematics.People think boys should better study math than girls.This stereotype may affect students' math performance.Mathematical self-efficacy is the ability of students to predict and judge whether they can complete a task in mathematics.Self-efficacy make them study math hard and consistently,which has an impact on their performance.High mathematical self-efficacy can help students boost self-esteem and thus affect their mathematical performance.Math gender stereotypes may lead to the decrease of students' self-efficacy and thus affect their academic performance.Based on this idea,this study tries to explore the influence of math gender stereotypes on math achievement through the mediation of math self-efficacy,so as to provide educators research results with certain reference value.At present,there are few researches on the relationship between math gender stereotypes and math academic performance.This paper focuses on the mediating effect of math self-efficacy on math gender stereotypes and math achievement.In this study,we investigated 336 senior high school students in Xi 'an,Shaanxi Province.The number of valid subjects is 310,accounting for 92.26%of the total,among which 170 are male and 140 are female.Then,the qualified data was input into SPSS 22.0.Data analysis mainly includes the analysis of mathematics gender stereotypes scores,mathematical self-efficacy scores and math scores,and the use of SPSS macro plugin process for mediation effect and moderated mediation model testing,The research mainly draws the following conclusions:(1)There is no significant mathematical gender stereotype among senior one students;(2)Girls have lower math gender stereotypes scores than boys,while boys have higher math self-efficacy scores than girls.(3)Math self-efficacy plays a mediating role between math gender stereotypes and math academic performance;(4)Gender plays a moderating role between math self-efficacy and math gender stereotypes.That is to say,the mediating effect between gender stereotype and mathematics achievement is more significant in girls.The results of this study found that although senior one students didn't show out gender stereotypes,it exactly have an impact on students' self efficacy,in turn,affects math grades.Students have been able to recognize math gender stereotypes in the society and gradually internalized them.The stereotypes have different degrees of negative impact on their mathematics study brings of boys and girls.Finally,through the literature material and experts consultations,from the perspective of mathematic,we provide the suggestions to improve math gender stereotypes and the quality of teaching.The study hopes to provide advice with certain reference value for teachers and parents,cause the reflection of educators to avoid the generation spread of gender stereotype and promote the realization of gender equity in education.