Some Researches Related to Effect in Mathematics Education since 1980s in Japan

Toshihiro Imai 
(Doshisha Woman College of Liberal Arts, Japan)

Abstract: Some researchers in Japan began to try to investigate students’ attitudes toward mathematics in 1980s. They translated some instruments developed by foreign researcher to Japanese and analyzed the validity and the reliability. Some of them tried to develop the original instruments in order to investigate students’ attitudes towards mathematics in Japan. Some researchers investigated to relationships between attitude toward mathematics and mathematics achievement and between attitude toward mathematics and other variables. Recently some researchers tried to analyzed various aspect of affect, for example consciousness on mathematics problem solving and belief on mathematics learning.

Key words: mathematics education, effect in mathematics learning, attitudes toward mathematics