The Influence of Students’ Perception and Productive Disposition with Mathematics on Goal Orientation among Math Major Students in Teacher Education Program

The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of students’ perception and productive disposition with mathematics on goal orientation among math major students in teacher education program. The study is quantitative research that utilizes descriptive-correlational approach. A sample of 150 randomly selected mathematics major students from first year to fourth year under teacher education program was identified using stratified random sampling who answered the surveys on the three variables. Results showed that the level of students’ perception, productive disposition, and goal orientation were all high in level. Results also revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship between students’ perception and goal orientation. Likewise, there was also a positive and significant relationship between productive disposition and goal orientation of the students. Moreover, results showed that domains of students’ perception such as competence, effort, teacher quality, family encouragement, enjoyment of mathematics, difficulty of mathematics, and confidence can significantly influence goal orientation. Additionally, results revealed that domains of productive disposition such as affect, beliefs, identity, mathematical integrity, risk taking, goals, motivation, and self-efficacy can significantly predict goal orientation of the respondents. Results implied that the goal orientation has a positive and significant relationship between students’ perception and productive disposition, it is recommended that the future researcher investigate other variables that could also have a positive and significant relationship between students’ perception and productive disposition throughout the learning of mathematics.