However, the lowest rating on the MCAI was Question 27 (“During practice, if a
problem takes several attempts and I cannot get it right, I get someone to do it for me and
try to memorize the procedure”). This means that students easily gave up when they faced
a difficult problem, and then they asked other students or the teacher to do it until there
was success because they wanted to find the correct procedure. After this success, they
tried to do it by themselves. In other words, students made no effort to think deeply and
preferred to memorize everything. According to the teachers and the principal, most
students in this school had the attitude revealed in Question 27.