Motivational Profiles in TIMSS Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motivational Profiles in TIMSS Mathematics write by Michalis P. Michaelides. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Motivational Profiles in TIMSS Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating countries. While motivational variables systematically relate to school outcomes, linear relationships can obscure the diverse makeup of student subgroups, each with varying combinations of motivation, emotions, and attitudes. In this book, a person-centered analysis of distinct and meaningful motivational profiles and their differences on sociodemographic variables and mathematics performance broadens understanding about the role that motivation characteristics play in learning and achievement in mathematics. Exploiting the richness of IEA’s TIMSS data from many countries, extracted clusters reveal consistent, as well as certain nuanced patterns that are systematically linked to sociodemographic and achievement measures. Student clusters with inconsistent motivational profiles were found in all countries; mathematics self-confidence then emerged as the variable more closely associated with average achievement. The findings demonstrate that teachers, researchers, and policymakers need to take into account differential student profiles, prioritizing techniques that target skill and competence in mathematics, in educational efforts to develop student motivation.
Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science
Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science write by Sarah J. Howie. This book was released on 2006-04-18. Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the result of research from over fifteen countries, asking which background and environmental factors influence achievement in mathematics and science. This research is based on data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which was conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in 1995 and 1998. In many countries researchers have started secondary analysis of the data in search for relationships between contextual factors and achievement. In these analyses two different approaches can be distinguished, which can be characterised by the metaphors of ‘fishing’ and ‘hunting’. In the ‘fishing’ approach, researchers begin with an open mind, considering all possible context variables as potentially influential. Applying analysis techniques such as regression analysis, Lisrel, PLS, HLM, and MLN, they then identify important factors within their countries or across a number of countries. In the ‘hunting’ approach, researchers hypothesise certain context variables and trace the effect of these variables on mathematics and/or science achievement.
Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics
Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics write by Teresa Neidorf. This book was released on 2019-10-30. Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access report explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in physics and mathematics and physics across grades four, eight and 12. Twenty years of data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and TIMSS Advanced assessments are analyzed, specifically for five countries (Italy, Norway, Russian Federation, Slovenia, and the United States) who participated in all or almost all TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced assessments between 1995 and 2015. The report focuses on students’ understandings related to gravitational force in physics and linear equations in mathematics. It identifies some specific misconceptions, errors, and misunderstandings demonstrated by the TIMSS Advanced grade 12 students for these core concepts, and shows how these can be traced back to poor foundational development of these concepts in earlier grades. Patterns in misconceptions and misunderstandings are reported by grade, country, and gender. In addition, specific misconceptions and misunderstandings are tracked over time, using trend items administered in multiple assessment cycles. The study and associated methodology may enable education systems to help identify specific needs in the curriculum, improve inform instruction across grades and also raise possibilities for future TIMSS assessment design and reporting that may provide more diagnostic outcomes.
According to the Book
According to the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook According to the Book write by Gilbert A. Valverde. This book was released on 2012-10-08. According to the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom? According to the Book presents findings from the largest cross-national study of textbooks carried out to date - the curriculum analysis of the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). This study included a detailed, page-by-page, inventory of the mathematics and science content, pedagogy, and other characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks in over forty countries. Drawing on these data, the authors investigate the rhetorical and pedagogical features of textbooks to understand how they promote and constrain educational opportunities. They investigate how textbooks are constructed and how they structure diverse elements into prescriptions for teaching practice. The authors break new ground in understanding textbooks in terms of different educational opportunities that they make possible. The book examines policy implications from these new understandings. In particular, conclusions are offered regarding the role of textbooks in curriculum-driven educational reform, in light of their role as promoters of qualitatively distinct educational opportunities.
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics write by Ina V. S. Mullis. This book was released on 2012-12. TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
