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ERIC Number: EJ1071892
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0144-3410
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Mathematics Achievement in High- and Low-Achieving Secondary Schools
Mohammadpour, Ebrahim; Shekarchizadeh, Ahmadreza
Educational Psychology, v35 n6 p689-713 2015
This paper identifies the amount of variance in mathematics achievement in high- and low-achieving schools that can be explained by school-level factors, while controlling for student-level factors. The data were obtained from 2679 Iranian eighth graders who participated in the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Of the total sample, 1422 and 1257 students were from high- and low-achieving schools, respectively. Two-level hierarchical linear modelling was applied. The results indicated that of the total variance in mathematics achievement, 27.95 and 6.70% were due to between-school differences in the high- and low-achieving schools, respectively. Controlling for the school-level factors, the better-performing students were those with a higher level of confidence in learning mathematics in both samples. After controlling for the student-level factors, inadequacies in school resources and school type yielded the strongest link to achievement in the high- and low-achieving schools, respectively.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
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