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Foundations of Mathematics Achievement
The Elementary School Journal, 2014AbstractAnalyzing Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey—Kindergarten (ECLS-K) data, we examine how exposure to instructional practices influences math test scores at the end of kindergarten for children from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and for children with different levels of math skills at kindergarten entry.
Martha Cecilia Bottia +3 more
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Personality and Mathematical Achievement
Psychological Reports, 1989This paper examines the role of personality factors in academic achievement, specifically achievement in mathematics, using self-concept as a major aspect of personality. A sample of 21 high school students with advanced placement in mathematics were given Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF).
Jerry Odom, Michael Shaughnessy
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Mathematics Achievement in the Netherlands and Appropriateness of the TIMSS Mathematics Test
Educational Research and Evaluation, 1999Dutch students performed relatively well on the TIMSS mathematics test for population 2, although influential mathematics educators heavily criticised the appropriateness and fairness of the test in terms of the new, application- and inquiry-oriented mathematics curriculum which was implemented beginning in August 1993.
Kuiper, Wilmad +2 more
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School and Instruction Effects on Mathematics Achievement
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1990Much research into school effectiveness fails to distinguish between pupil and classroom or teacher effects on the one hand, and ' ‘real’ school effects on the other. Moreover Dutch research into effective secondary schools is primarily concerned with pupil attainment whereas most Anglo-Saxon literature on this topic deals with pupil cognitive ...
Bosker, Roel J. +2 more
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Mathematics achievement and fear of success
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1982The purpose of the study was to examine whether the fear or success (FS) construct, which grew out of attempts to understand the conflicting sex-related findings in achievement motivation, was helpful in explaining observed sex differences in mathematics achievement and course participation.
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Educational Research, 1998
An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of metacognitive instruction on mathematics achievement and attitude towards mathematics of low mathematics achievers at a middle school in the No...
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An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of metacognitive instruction on mathematics achievement and attitude towards mathematics of low mathematics achievers at a middle school in the No...
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Anxiety, Cognitive Style, and Mathematics Achievement
The Journal of General Psychology, 1983This study examined the relationship among state and trait anxiety, cognitive style, and mathematics achievement. The Ss were 50 junior college students enrolled in a mathematics course. The results confirmed the hypothesis that high state anxiety would be associated with poor mathematics achievement; trait anxiety showed no significant relationship to
T E, Sewell, F H, Farley, F B, Sewell
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Mathematics and the low achiever
The Arithmetic Teacher, 1970As part of its Golden Jubilee activities, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics will present a set of exciting new instructional materials designed to help low achievers learn mathematics. The characteristics of individuality, activity, success, meaning, and novelty are emphasized in these materials.
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Time-on-task, technology and mathematics achievement
Evaluation and Program Planning, 2008Information and communication technologies hold much promise for use in education in developing countries. This study reports on an evaluation conducted on the introduction of computers in the delivery of the mathematics curriculum in one of the provinces of South Africa.
Johann, Louw +2 more
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Mathematics anxiety and achievement in mathematics 436
2003This item was digitized as part of a project to share McGill's intellectual legacy with the public. If you are the copyright holder or a relative of the copyright holder who is deceased, you may request withdrawal by emailing escholarship.library@mcgill.ca.
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