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Borgonovi, Francesca; Pokropek, Artur – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
We examine the relevance of task exposure specificity in the development of self-efficacy evaluations among 15-year-old students in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. We use data from the 2012 edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to assess if students' self-efficacy evaluations…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Fung, Francis; Tan, Cheng Yong; Chen, Gaowei – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
The present study explored the relationships between student engagement and mathematics achievement for 295,416 15-year-old students from 11,767 secondary schools in 34 countries who participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012. Affective engagement was measured by students' mathematics interest (InterestMath) and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
OECD Publishing, 2016
Although low performers should invest more time and effort in their studies, they seldom do. One reason is because they often feel that they get no return on their investment: more studying does not automatically lead to better marks in school. But with the right kind of in-school support, including creative and engaging mathematics-related…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Salgado, Felipe Almuna; Stacey, Kaye – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper reports how the context in which a mathematics item is embedded impacts on students' performance. The performance of Year 10 students on four PISA items was compared with performance on variants with more familiar contexts. Performance was not better when they solved items with more familiar contexts but there was some evidence that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Performance Factors, Test Items, Context Effect