Emotional Intelligence And Attitude As Predictors Of Achievement In Mathematics

ABSTRACTThe innate feelings of a learner has been identified as a great factor influencing learning and overt achievement of a learner Salovey and Mayer (1990), thus the importance to study learners through Emotional Intelligence and Attitude disposition toward learning and its eventual outcomes. This study examined how Emotional Intelligence and Attitude can predict Achievement in Mathematics of Secondary School students. Two Hundred (200) Students were selected among five public secondary schools, which was made up of forty students per school were used as the population. Three questionnaire…