INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOPEDAGOGIC FACTORS ON STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON

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INTRODUCTION Achievement is the driving force behind every and quality of a student’s work. endeavour in life. No human being has ever dared Chakravarthi (2020) views Mathematical to venture into a task in order to fail. All human Achievement as the outcome or performance of effort in our walk in life is geared towards students in mathematics. It is measured using tools achievement in one way or the other. Within the like the Achievement Test in mathematics (ATM) years, achievement in Mathematics in secondary developed for this purpose. According to Tafuzie schools in the South West has been observed to be (2023), Mathematic achievement refers to the low compared to other compulsory subjects, level of success in Maths skill. It is influenced by English Language and French. Top Hat (2024), factors such as self-efficacy, parental support, and describes academic achievement as academic school status but not by ability grouping. Bapes outcomes that indicate the extent to which a (2014) views it as the competence of the student in student has achieved their learning goals. Or it is mathematics at the end of a school year, aimed at the extent to which a student or institution has achieving three main competencies: student’s achieved either short or long term goals, measured mathematics competency, display a logical through student’s grade point average or the reasoning and communicate using Mathematical institution’s graduation rates. Webster (2024) Language. It is also viewed as the Student’s views achievement as the act of achieving mathematics performance/score/grade; interest something, a result gained by effort, the quantity https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajssei 243 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION INNOVATIONS (ISSN- 2689-100X) VOLUME 06 ISSUE12 in Mathematics, and so on (OECD-PISA: cooperation (algebra), accuracy (statistics, Organization of Economic Cooperation and geometry, analysis), and logical reasoning Development -Program for International Student (analysis be it analytical or geometrical) which are Assessment, 2018). preserved for cultural advancements in Mathematics. Hence the purpose and functional Mathematics is the science and study of quality, nature of the knowledge of Mathematics justifies structure, space and change. Mathematicians seek its existence as a discipline worthy of study (Esu, out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and 2015). establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. The In spite of these values enumerated above, many best definition states that mathematics is the secondary school students are not achieving well science of structure, order, and relation that has in Mathematics. This is an age-old problem. There evolved from elemental practices of counting, are many factors that account for this poor measuring, and describing the shapes of objects achievement in Mathematics. However, one factor (Tennessee Tech University, 2022). It is also that has not been paid much attention in research defined as the science of numbers and how they is psychopedagogic factors. are related to each other and to the real world. Psychopedagogy is a comprehensive discipline Mathematics is as important as language. In fact, that combines psychology and pedagogy to people sometimes describe Mathematics as a kind identify, understand, and address learning and of language (Esu, 2015). development difficulties in individuals. Its The knowledge of Trigonometry, Geometry and interdisciplinary approach makes it a key tool to Calculus is fundamental to the study of Physics, promote the educational success of students at all and Engineering, Mathematics Language is crucial levels. Its approach focuses on the individual as a to the study of Economics; statistical Methods unique being considering their peculiarities, cannot be eluded from Social Science and potentialities, and specific needs. This allows for management sciences, the use of Logic is important the design of personalized interventions that fit to the study of philosophy and law too. The use of each case, promoting meaningful learning and sequence and series is fundamental to the study of favouring school success (El Bueno, 2023). Its music and Fine Art to name but a few. The importance lies in its usefulness in the educational aforementioned show that the acquisition of field; evaluation and diagnosis, interdisciplinary Mathematical knowledge is not for the sake of collaboration, psychopedagogical interventions to knowledge, but also in its application in other individuals of any age is necessary in the treatment areas (Sidhu, 2008). The discipline of Mathematics of learning problems that arise in their academic as a school subject is known as the queen of the development and for their functional life (El sciences due to the Mathematical tools used in Bueno, 2023). other subjects. This is also evident in the transfer The following are indicators of P