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Chen, Jianan; van Laar, Saskia; Braeken, Johan – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
A general validity and survey quality concern with student questionnaires under low-stakes assessment conditions is that some responders will not genuinely engage with the questionnaire, often with more random response patterns as a result. Using a mixture IRT approach and a meta-analytic lens across 22 educational systems participating in TIMSS…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Melkonian, Michael; Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Educational Studies, 2018
The study examined the impact of students' absolute age-position at the time of testing by grade level and gender on their achieved level of mathematics, reading and science performance. An analysis was conducted based on a sample of 11,500 15-year-old pupils in the United Arab Emirates who participated in the OECD's Programme for International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions, Gender Differences
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Retnawati, Heri; Wulandari, Nidya F. – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
Improving the proficiency in mathematical literacy is one of the efforts to improve the human resources quality. Its development describes the students' strengths and weaknesses to support the improvement. The research tried to describe the development of students' proficiency in mathematical literacy, based on the school level and the students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Achievement, Skill Development, Junior High School Students
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Cheema, Jehanzeb R.; Skultety, Lisa S. – Educational Psychology, 2017
Subject-specific self-efficacy is a measure of confidence in one's own ability to complete tasks related to that subject. This confidence does not necessarily reflect actual ability in the subject and can be an over- or underestimate of true ability. We use nationally representative samples of 15-year-old students from the US to measure the degree…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Scientific Literacy, Mathematics Skills, Adolescents