ROLE OF MATHEMATICS SELF-EFFICACY IN THE STRUCTURAL MODEL OF MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT

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RANDHAWA, BS
BEAMER, JE
LUNDBERG, I
机构
[1] CURTIN UNIV TECHNOL,CTR MATH EDUC,PERTH,WA,AUSTRALIA
[2] UNIV SASKATCHEWAN,DEPT CURRICULUM STUDIES,SASKATOON S7N 0W0,SASKATCHEWAN,CANADA
[3] UMEA UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,S-90187 UMEA,SWEDEN
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10.1037/0022-0663.85.1.41
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G44 [教育心理学];
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0402 ; 040202 ;
摘要
A structural model of mathematics achievement was tested with 117 male and 108 female high school seniors. Two attitude measures, 3 mathematics self-efficacy scales, and a mathematics achievement test were administered in the same order to all the subjects. Teacher-assigned marks in a selected mathematics course the subjects were taking were also obtained. The covariance matrices of boys and girls were analyzed with a 2-group LISREL procedure. The LISREL model specified mathematics self-efficacy as a mediator between mathematics attitude and achievement. The postulated model for similarly specified parameters was a good fit to the data for both boys and girls.
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