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The Structural Relations among Learning Environment, Achievement Goals and Reading Achievement in China: Evidence from PISA 2018
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Lingqi Meng; Chen Qiu; Xinling Liu; Minghui Kong – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores structural relations among learning environment, achievement goals and reading achievement in China. The sample contains 12,058 Chinese students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 study. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (Multilevel SEM) is used for data analysis. The results indicate that…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Reading Achievement
The Appraisal Antecedents of Shanghai Students' Mathematics Anxiety and the Moderating Effects of Teacher Behaviours: From the Perspective of the Control-Value Theory
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Simiao Liu; Frederick K. S. Leung; Zheng Jiang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
As mathematics anxiety could result in students' low performance and impact their well-being, it is necessary for both researchers and educators to understand what causes mathematics anxiety and what moderates these effects. Based on the control-value theory, the present study proposed a framework that students' mathematics anxiety was triggered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Anxiety, Teacher Behavior, Predictor Variables
Rising above Their Circumstances: What Makes Some Disadvantaged East and South-East Asian Students Perform Far Better in Science than Their Background Predicts?
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Clavel, Jose G.; García Crespo, Francisco Javier; Sanz San Miguel, Luis – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
The Programme for International Student Assessment, carried out every three years by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development across a large number of countries and economies, have shown that socioeconomically disadvantaged students are almost three times more likely than advantaged students not to attain the baseline level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
How Are Maths-Anxious Students Identified and What Are the Key Predictors of Maths Anxiety? Insights Gained from PISA Results for Korean Adolescents
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Yi, Hyun Sook; Na, Wooyoul – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Maths anxiety has been of great concern for many educators and educational policymakers because of its adverse effects on students' maths performance and career path. Various empirical studies have been conducted to explore the factors predicting maths anxiety, and they have typically been based on a limited set of pre-specified variables, such as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Predictor Variables, International Assessment, Achievement Tests