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Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Pesman, Haki – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The authors explored how gender and socioeconomic status (SES) predicted physics achievement as mediated by metacognition and physics self-efficacy. Data were collected from 338 high school students. The model designed for exploring how gender and SES-related differences in physics achievement were explained through metacognition and physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status
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Traynor, Anne; Raykov, Tenko – Comparative Education Review, 2013
In international achievement studies, questionnaires typically ask about the presence of particular household assets in students' homes. Responses to the assets questions are used to compute a total score, which is intended to represent household wealth in models of test performance. This study uses item analysis and confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Validity, Psychometrics
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Yang, Yang – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2003
Using two-level structural equation modeling, examined the dimensionality of socioeconomic status (SES) and its relationship with mathematics and science performance at student and school levels. Data from 13-year-olds from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study show that SES dimensions have different effects on mathematics and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Individual Differences, International Studies, Mathematics Achievement