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Hwang, Sunghwan; Son, Taekwon – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2021
The relationship between students' attitudes toward mathematics and mathematics achievement has garnered tremendous attention from researchers. However, there is a degree of inconsistency in the findings regarding this relationship. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the profiles of students' attitudes toward mathematics and examine their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
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Harju-Luukkainen, H.; Vettenranta, J.; Wang, J.; Garvis, S. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Family-related factors, like parent's educational level, their values and expectations have a significant impact on child's early skills and later educational outcomes. Further, parents provide their child, alongside with other learning environments, a broad mathematical and early literacy input. This study investigates the relationship between…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Values, Expectation
Pang, JeongSuk; Seah, Wee Tiong – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: Given the unclear relationship between cognition and affect, this article reports on a study exploring how the conative variable of values may provide some explanation for students with excellent performance despite a negative attitude toward mathematics. Design/Approach/Methods: The study reported in this article represents Korea's…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Performance Factors, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Zhang, Fa; Bae, Christine L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In this systematic literature review, we examined the theoretical frameworks, construct operationalisation, and quantitative results as they relate to student motivation and science achievement in TIMSS studies. Our synthesis of findings derived from an international dataset present notable value in that the patterns identified regarding the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Science Achievement, Correlation, Self Efficacy
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Liou, Pey-Yan; Wang, Cheng-Lung; Lin, John J. H. – Educational Psychology, 2019
This study aimed to examine the mediating effects of motivational beliefs in the relations between parental involvement and science achievement. Three types of motivational beliefs, namely, self-concept, intrinsic value, and utility value were addressed based on the Expectancy-Value Theory model. A representative national sample from Taiwan of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Motivation, Beliefs, Science Achievement
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Rachmatullah, Arif; Ha, Minsu; Park, Jisun – South African Journal of Education, 2019
This study demonstrates the relations of the position of education in the correlation between religiosity, and socioeconomic variables by using national-level, and large survey data. We used data from the international survey of 68 countries, and used statistical methods to create the composite scores of every variable. Next, we used Pearson and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Religion, Socioeconomic Status, Cross Cultural Studies
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Lay, Yoon Fah; Ng, Khar Thoe; Chong, Poi Su – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
Psychologists believe that a student's motivation is influenced by a number of values/beliefs, interests and attitudes that can be positive or negative in their effects. Highly positively motivated students would believe that the task is of value (value beliefs), also with high expectations that they would achieve success (expectancy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Student Motivation
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He, Jia; Van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Kulikova, Alena – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
Linking country-level educational achievement with other country-level indicators has the potential to drive systemic educational changes, as these correlates may reflect characteristics relevant for policy-making decisions to improve educational effectiveness. This study establishes a nomological network of educational achievement at the country…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Self Esteem, Achievement Tests