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VESGA-BRAVO, Grace Judith  e  CUERVO, Zaida Mabel Angel. Attitudes Toward Mathematics Among Students of Engineering, Economics, and Medicine. Pág. Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.18, n.1, e4261.  Epub 01-Jun-2025. ISSN 1688-7468.  https://doi.org/10.22235/pe.v18i1.4261.

This study aimed to explore the attitudes toward mathematics among students of engineering, economics, and medicine at a private university in Colombia, as well as the relationship between these attitudes and variables such as gender and field of study. A total of 561 students participated, completing Auzmendi’s (1992) Mathematics Attitude Scale, which measures overall attitude and five specific factors: anxiety, enjoyment, utility, motivation, and confidence. The study employed a quantitative approach, with data processed using SPSS. A descriptive analysis of the overall results was conducted, along with Student’s t-tests to analyze gender differences and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) with HSD-Tukey tests to assess differences across fields of study. Findings revealed that attitudes toward mathematics were most favorable among engineering students and lowest among medical students, with significant differences among the three programs in terms of overall attitude, enjoyment, and utility. Gender differences were also evident: male students scored higher on all factors, with significant differences in overall attitude, anxiety, enjoyment, and utility

Palavras-chave : attitudes; mathematics; higher education; gender.

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