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Direct linkTriinu Kilp-Kabel; Kaja Mädamürk – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
The current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between math anxiety and math achievement, highlighting differences in motivation based on age, and the mediating effects of task persistence as well as aspects of the expectancy-value theory. The students in the study (grade five N = 335, grade eight N = 251) were from Estonian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 8, Elementary School Mathematics
Nan Wu; Jian Wang – Educational Studies, 2025
Concept-based teaching is presumably more effective than popular procedure-based instruction in helping students develop conceptual understanding, an important conceptual base for mathematics teaching reforms in many countries. This study examined the extent to which this assumption is true by controlling the influences of student socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Mathematics Instruction
Amalija Žakelj; Mara Cotic; Daniel Doz – Cogent Education, 2024
The present research investigates the effects of an active and experiential learning approach on eighth-grade students' mathematics achievement employing a quasi-experimental research design. A total of 231 students from four Slovenian primary schools participated in the study, with 101 students assigned to the experimental group (EG) and 130 to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Grade 8
Michael A. Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examines whether a relationship exists between school size and student achievement utilizing the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) exams for students in grades 3-8 in both Reading and Math. More specifically, the study investigates the relationship of school size and achievement with historically underperforming subgroups,…
Descriptors: School Size, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) initiated this special study in an effort to link the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scale to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) scale so that states could compare the performance of their students with that of students in other countries. The…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Grade 8, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
Žakelj, Amalija; Grmek, Milena Ivanuš; Cankar, Franc – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
In this article we are presenting the results of the research "The Connection between the Results in the National Assessment of Knowledge and the Pupils' Socio-cultural Environment, Instruction and Homework," taking place at the National Education Institute, Slovenia, in the years 2008/2009. In the introduction we are writing the…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The 2011 NAEP-TIMSS linking study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was designed to predict Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) scores for the U.S. states that participated in 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics and science assessment of eighth-grade students.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Research Methodology, Research Design, Trend Analysis
Canada, Patricia Oxendine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In response to the mandates of No Child Left Behind, (NCLB), educators across the country struggle to close the gaps between males and females. Some of the physiological differences existing between the male and female brain suggest support for single-gender instruction, which is on the rise within this country as well as other parts of the world.…
Descriptors: Scores, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Gender Differences
