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Simzar, Rahila; Domina, Thurston; Tran, Cathy – AERA Open, 2016
This study uses student panel data to examine the association between algebra placement and student motivation for mathematics. Changes in achievement goals, expectancy, and task value for students in eighth-grade algebra are compared with those of peers placed in lower-level mathematics courses (N = 3,306). In our sample, students placed in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 8, Student Placement, Student Motivation
Simzar, Rahila; Domina, Thurston; Conley, AnneMarie; Tran, Cathy – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
A national initiative encourages STEM careers to prepare students to succeed in an increasingly competitive economy (National Research Council, 2011). The STEM pipeline is dependent on students' mathematics course-taking trajectories, which are determined once a student enrolls in his/her first Algebra course. Despite efforts to increase access to…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Student Motivation, Correlation, Algebra