ERIC Number: ED490044
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Apr
Pages: 32
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Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Student Expectations: Results from PISA 2003
Schulz, Wolfram H.
Online Submission, Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Montreal, Apr 11-15, 2005)
Student performance is generally viewed as the main criterion variable when analysing equity in the outcomes of education. However, there is evidence that even with increasing equity in achievement, inequity in other important learning outcomes might still prevail. Students' judgements of their own ability to solve tasks in Mathematics or "Mathematics Self-Efficacy" are often viewed as crucial learning outcomes, which affect the process of learning and are important predictors of educational career choices. The second survey of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2003) provides data from nationally representative data on self-related cognitions, learning behaviours and student performance in the area of Mathematics from 30 OECD and 10 non-OECD countries. This paper includes multi-level analyses of the effects of gender and student home background on the beliefs of self-efficacy and logistic regression analyses of the impact of these beliefs on general career expectations among 15-year-old students from 30 OECD countries. The results of the analyses of relationships between self-beliefs and literacy in the area of mathematics and the effects of self-efficacy on students' general career expectations largely confirm findings of earlier research and are largely consistent across OECD countries. (Contains 10 tables, 8 footnotes, and 1 figure.)
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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