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Re-examining factor structure of the attitudinal items from timss 2003 in cross-cultural study of mathematics self-concept
- Re-examining factor structure of the attitudinal items from timss 2003 in cross-cultural study of mathematics self-concept
- Educational Psychology, 30(6), 699-712, 2010
- Routledge
- 2010
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- Hong Kong
- United States
- Japan
- Taiwan
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- The aims of this study were to examine the factor structure of the attitudinal questionnaire items from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 and to investigate low- and high-performing students' mathematics self-concept in East Asian societies and in the USA. The participants were 24,119 eighth-graders, 4856 from Japan, 4972 from Hong Kong, 5379 from Taiwan and 8912 from the USA. Exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) were conducted revealing a same factor structure across the four societies. The MANOVA results showed that (1) the US students reported a statistically significant higher mathematics self-concept than students in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Japan; (2) across the four societies, high-performing students had statistically significant higher self-concept than low-performing students; and (3) the US low-performing students' self-concept was higher than Japanese high-performing students' self-concept. The implications of these findings are discussed.[Copyright of Educational Psychology is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2010.501102]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 01443410
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/d15a2ae5
- 2011-01-21
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