Students' Perceptions of the Classroom Environment and Evaluation and Attitudes toward Mathematics

The purpose of this study was to present a structural model of the effect of students 'perceptions of the classroom environment and Perception of Evaluation on students' attitudes toward mathematics with the mediation of self-efficacy in secondary schools in Noor city, Iran. The research method was descriptive structural equations. Using cluster sampling method, 281 individuals were selected as the sample. And Pearson correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling were used for data analysis. The results indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between perception of the classroom environment, Perception of Evaluation and self-efficacy with attitudes toward mathematics. The results also revealed that the effect coefficient of the perception of the classroom environment on the attitude towards mathematics was not significant, but the effect coefficient of the perception of evaluation on the attitude towards mathematics was positive and significant. Also, self-efficacy played a mediating role between perception of evaluation and attitude towards mathematics.