scholarly journals Students’ Math Self-Concept, Math Anxiety, and Math Achievement: The Moderating Role of Teacher Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Satoshi Oda ◽  
Chiaki Konishi ◽  
Takashi Oba ◽  
Tracy K. Y. Wong ◽  
Xiaoxue Kong ◽  
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This study explored the moderating roles of teacher instrumental and emotional support on the association between students’ math anxiety/math self-concept and math achievement. Participants included 21,544 Canadian students aged 15 years (10,943 girls) who participated in the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment. Results indicated that instrument support and emotional support were positively associated with math achievement. A significant moderation effect was evident between instrumental support and math anxiety; higher levels of instrumental support were associated with higher math achievement at low levels of math anxiety. Emotional support did not interact with math anxiety or math self-concept. The present findings highlight the importance to consider not only individual factors (i.e., math anxiety and math self-concept) but also the role of teacher support in supporting math achievement. 

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia He ◽  
Janine Buchholz ◽  
Eckhard Klieme

Anchoring vignettes are item batteries especially designed for correcting responses that might be affected by incomparability. This article investigates the effects of anchoring vignettes on the validity of student self-report data in 64 cultures. Using secondary data analysis from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we checked the validity of ratings on vignette questions, and investigated how rescaled item responses of two student scales, Teacher Support and Classroom Management, enhanced comparability and predictive validity. The main findings include that (a) responses to vignette questions represent valid individual and cultural differences; in particular, violations in these responses (i.e., misorderings) are related to low socioeconomic status and low cognitive sophistication; (b) the rescaled responses tend to show higher levels of comparability; and (c) the associations of rescaled Teacher Support and Classroom Management with math achievement, Student-Oriented Instruction, and Teacher-Directed Instruction are slightly different from raw scores of the two target constructs, and the associations with rescaled scores seem to be more in line with the literature. Namely, the associations among all self-report Likert-type scales are weaker with rescaled scores, presumably reducing common method variance, and both rescaled scale scores are more positively related to math achievement. The country ranking also changes substantially; in particular, Asian cultures top the ranking on Teacher Support after rescaling. However, anchoring vignettes are not a cure-all in solving measurement bias in cross-cultural surveys; we discuss the technicality and directions for further research on this technique.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Marsh ◽  
Philip D. Parker ◽  
Reinhard Pekrun

Abstract. We simultaneously resolve three paradoxes in academic self-concept research with a single unifying meta-theoretical model based on frame-of-reference effects across 68 countries, 18,292 schools, and 485,490 15-year-old students. Paradoxically, but consistent with predictions, effects on math self-concepts were negative for: • being from countries where country-average achievement was high; explaining the paradoxical cross-cultural self-concept effect; • attending schools where school-average achievement was high; demonstrating big-fish-little-pond-effects (BFLPE) that generalized over 68 countries, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/non-OECD countries, high/low achieving schools, and high/low achieving students; • year-in-school relative to age; unifying different research literatures for associated negative effects for starting school at a younger age and acceleration/skipping grades, and positive effects for starting school at an older age (“academic red shirting”) and, paradoxically, even for repeating a grade. Contextual effects matter, resulting in significant and meaningful effects on self-beliefs, not only at the student (year in school) and local school level (BFLPE), but remarkably even at the macro-contextual country-level. Finally, we juxtapose cross-cultural generalizability based on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data used here with generalizability based on meta-analyses, arguing that although the two approaches are similar in many ways, the generalizability shown here is stronger in terms of support for the universality of the frame-of-reference effects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Siti Hannah Padliyyah

Indonesia is ranked 56th out of 65 participating countries in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) based on data 2015. According to PISA results, the average science score of Indonesian students is 403, where this number is categorized as low. This is because students are still in the process of understanding and have not yet fully recognized the location of their mistakes. Students can diagnose the location of their mistakes through self-diagnosis activities. Self-diagnosis activities require the active role of students during the learning process. One approach that can increase the active role of students is STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics). However, research at this time is still rarely found self-diagnosis activities that are applied to the STEM approach. Therefore, this research has the aim to find out the increase in mastery of physical concepts and self-diagnosis of students on the STEM learning approach to the theory of poscal law class XI High School.This study uses a One-Group pretest-posttest design with a sample of 30 ini 11th grade highschool from one schools in Bandung. . Based on the findings, there is an increase in mastery of concepts [<g> = 0.51] from pre-test to post-test. In self-diagnosis activities identified that there are differences in scores [z = 1.75; p = 0.9599] student assessment results of researchers and self-scoring results. Deeper self-diagnosis triggers a series of implicit steps that encourage them to rearrange their cognition by correcting the mistakes they make when solving problems. So that learning activities using the STEM approach that involves self-diagnosis activities can improve students' mastery of concepts.


Author(s):  
Iosif Zaia ◽  
Ekaterina Manuylova ◽  
Artur Gevorkyan ◽  
Pavel Nesterov ◽  
Sergei Gavrov

The article based on the research which aim is to clear, how common teaching practices in Russian schools affecting the decline in the results of students when performing tasks of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The authors of the article try to understand why teachers so often prefer quite old training technologies. In the course of study these problems, members of research team conducted interviews and discussions with school teachers from the Moscow region who were trained in advanced training courses at the Academy of Public Administration. Intensive interaction with teachers helped the authors to draw a conclusion that the avoiding more effective contemporary training technologies is due to certain conditions in which the teacher works. Another conclusion made in the article: teachers fail in teaching students not because they do not have enough knowledge of modern technologies and techniques or because they underestimate the importance of developing critical thinking, anthropological imagination, knowledge of meta-subject connections, the skills to understand texts and work with heterogeneous information, but because they are not ready to accept the changing social role of the school. 


Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-251
Author(s):  
Mette Steenberg ◽  
Charlotte Christiansen ◽  
Anne Line Dalsgård ◽  
Anne Maria Stagis ◽  
Liv Moeslund Ahlgren ◽  
...  

Abstract This article responds to this special issue's overarching interest in the relation between modes of reading and the experiences of actual readers by analyzing how the specific practice of shared reading facilitates readers’ engagement in literary reading. The article responds both to an under-investigated dimension of the practice of shared reading, that of the role of facilitation, and to a pressing articulated and educational need to develop additional and better methodologies for fostering literary reading engagement, as existing results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have demonstrated the importance of reading engagement for both academic achievement and social mobility. By linking the notion of engagement within the PISA framework with phenomenologically oriented empirical research on expressive reading and the notion of emergent thinking in existing shared reading research, the article argues for the role of the reader leader in facilitating literary engagement. These connections may inspire literary scholars to consider the link between literary analysis and the didactics of literary reading.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-191
Author(s):  
Lizzie Swaffield

This article considers the nature of the globally structured reform agenda including the role of international organisations and the development of new supra-national modes of governance. It discusses the impact of this agenda on education policy within national education systems with a particular focus on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an example of the globally structured reform agenda. It explores the role PISA has in global educational governance and in influencing the transfer of policy between education systems. Policy responses to PISA are critically discussed with a particular focus on the response in Wales. It is argued that new supra-national modes of governance shape education systems and the transfer of policy between them, but that they are also used as a tool to further domestic political agendas in order to bring about reforms.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haigen Huang

Despite decades of educational reforms, the achievement gap based on socioeconomic status (SES) persists in the United States. Not only does the SES-based achievement gap persist, it has also been widening. This study focused on the role of students, hypothesizing that students might reduce the SES-based achievement gap by increasing their learning time and persistence. I used both ANOVA and two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) to analyze the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) United States data. The findings suggested that students viewing themselves to be persistent were likely to perform better than those viewing themselves to be less persistent. Also increased time learning in school was associated with increased achievement. However, high-SES students generally spent more time learning in school and viewed themselves to be more persistent. Thus learning time and persistence were not likely to address the SES constraint on achievement for a majority of low-SES students unless schools provided them extra classes and learning opportunities.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (68) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Gabriela Moriconi ◽  
Adriana Bauer

<p>Nesta entrevista, Andreas Schleicher, Diretor de Educação e Assessor Especial em Política Educacional da Secretaria Geral da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE), comenta sobre o papel da OCDE e, em especial, do Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), no contexto educacional internacional, sua relação com atores da comunidade educacional, bem como os impactos de sua atuação. A entrevista aborda, ainda, aspectos relativos à participação do Brasil em programas e projetos educacionais da OCDE.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Avaliação Internacional; Pesquisa Comparada; Pisa; OCDE.</p><p>  </p><p><strong>International education assessments and surveys: interview with Andreas Schleicher</strong></p><p>In this interview, Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Sills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), comments on the role of the OECD and, in particular, of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), in the international education context, its relationship with actors in the educational community, as well as the impacts of its performance. The interview also addresses aspects related to Brazil’s participation in OECD educational programs and projects.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> International Assessment; Comparative Research; Pisa; OECD.</p><p>  </p><p><strong>Evaluaciones e investigaciones educativas internacionales: entrevista con Andreas Schleicher</strong></p><p>En esta entrevista, Andreas Schleicher, Director de Educación y Asesor Especial en Política Educacional de la Secretaría General de la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), comenta sobre el papel de la OCDE y, en especial, del Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Estudiantes (PISA), en el contexto educativo internacional; su relación con actores de la comunidad educacional; así como los impactos de su actuación. La entrevista aborda asimismo aspectos relativos a la participación de Brasil en programas y proyectos educativos de la OCDE.</p><strong>Palabras-clave:</strong> Evaluación Internacional; Investigación Comparada; PISA; OCDE


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kale

The main purpose of the research is to examine school variables that have effect on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 math achievement in Turkey and Shanghai-China. The research was designed in casual comparison model. Research population was constituted by student in age group of 15 in Turkey and Shanghai-China in 2012.The sample consists of 4848 students and 170 schools in Turkey and 5177 students and 155 schools in  Shanghai-China that participated in PISA 2012. Two-leveled Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM) was used to analyze data because the data collected in PISA 2012 had a hierarchical data structure. As a result of analysis, variability in math scores, 63% in Turkey and  47% in Shanghai-China, was found due to the difference between the mean math scores of schools. It was determined that  MACTIV, SCMATEDU and TCMORALE in Turkey and MACTIV, in Shanghai-China statistically affect on math achievement. Keywords: PISA, school administration, school variables, HLM


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