Improving STEM mathematics achievement through self-efficacy, student perception, and mathematics connection: The mediating role of student interest

Increasing Student Mathematics Self - Efficacy Through Teacher Training

Student Engagement and Classroom Variables in Improving Mathematics Achievement

87 Since Coleman et al. (1966) began to explore school effects on student achievement in the United States, research on a relationship between education resources (e.g. money, curricula, and facilities) and education outcomes (e.g. student achievement, cognitive development) has taken large part of educational research in the twentieth century ((Burstein, 1980; Bryk & Raudenbush, 1992; Sammons,...

Chapter 1: International Student Achievement in Mathematics

Exhibit 1.1 shows the distribution of student achievement for the participants in TIMSS 2007, including the average (mean) scale score with its 95 percent confidence interval and the ranges in performance for the middle half of the students (25th to 75th percentiles) as well as the extremes (5th and 95th percentiles). The first page of Exhibit 1.1 presents the distribution for the achievement f...

From classroom environment to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of self-perceived ability and subject interest

Drawing on Bandura's triadic reciprocal causation model, perceived classroom environment and three intrapersonal factors (mathematics self-efficacy, maths interest and academic self-concept) were considered as predictors of test performance in two correlated mathematics assessments: a public examination (GCSE) and an on-line test, both taken by UK pupils at age 16 (n = 6689). Intrapersonal fact...

Improving Mathematics Teacher Practice and Student Learning through Professional Development

We propose to study how to provide, on a large scale, the professional development and continuing support teachers need to improve student achievement in mathematics. Over five years of a longitudinal study, we will examine how the use of specific research-based instructional strategies in the classroom— supported by professional development and highly rated curriculum materials—relate to lasti...