The purpose of this research is to develop a mathematical learning dispositions scale for elementary school children, based on the definitions of learning dispositions, proposed by Carr & claxton. the influence of emotions and intentions. it includes both A scale and B scale, A scale is mainly concerned with the sematic differential, whereas B scale with the liker type scale the principal concepts of learning dispositions lie in resilience, playfulness and reciprocity. the research objects are 98 senior students in an elementary school in the Taichung county. the internal consistency reliabilities of the two scales are between 0.708 and 0.888 the correlation coefficients for the Chinese and mathematics courses In a scale are 0.384 and 0507, respectively while those in B scale are 0.249 and 0.437 respectively. in the research we also ask students to choose pictures to portray their roles in the mathematics for some open questions of self-assessment, and make initial discussions according to students with different learning styles. our study is based on the learning orientation model (Martinez, 1999,1998,997) including four learning orientations: transforming, performing, conforming, and resistant learners.
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