The Relationship between Students' Achievement and their Self-perception of Competence and Rigour of Mathematics and Science: A cross-national analysis

Abstract

This study applies theory linking students' self-perceived competence with academic achievement, using data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Within-country data generally show a positive relationship between student achievement and self-perceived competence in mathematics and science. However, when one examines this relationship between countries, the opposite relationship occurs, i.e. countries with higher student self-evaluations usually performed poorly on the TIMSS tests and vice versa. Similarly, countries with a high proportion of students perceiving the subjects as being easy performed poorly on the TIMSS tests and vice versa. This pattern exists for both mathematics and science at grades 3, 4, 7 and 8. The authors suggest that this pattern may re ect low academic expectations and standards in low performing countries and high academic expectations and standards in high performing countries.

Factors Related To University Entrance Examination Achievement: A Case Study from Turkey

“…Üniversite giriş sınav başarısının öğrencinin bilgi ve akademik yetenekleriyle ilişkili olması beklenmekle birlikte, sosyoekonomik statü (Sirin, 2005), ilgi (Schiefele, Krapp, ve Winteler, 1992), başarı algısı (Shen, 2002;Shen ve Pedulla, 2000), ve öğretim yöntemleri (Aypay, Erdoğan, ve Sözer, 2007) gibi başarıyı etkileyebilecek başka faktörler de bulunmaktadır.…”

“…Akademik başarı ile ilişkili bir diğer duyuşsal faktör de başarı algısıdır (Shen, 2002;Shen ve Pedulla, 2000). Başarı algısı, öğrencinin okulla ilişkili öz-benliğinin anahtar bileşenidir (Bong ve Skaalvik, 2003).…”

“…Başarı algısı, öğrencinin okulla ilişkili öz-benliğinin anahtar bileşenidir (Bong ve Skaalvik, 2003). Başarı ile matematik ve fen bilgisi öz-benliği arasında pozitif ilişki olduğunu çeşitli çalışmalar göstermiştir (Chiu ve Xihua, 2008;Liu ve Meng, 2010;Wilkins, 2004;Yoshino, 2012;Shen ve Pedulla, 2000). Akademik öz-benliğin ilgiyi etkilediği gösterilmesine karşın (Krapp 2000;Köller, Baumert ve Schnabel, 2001), ilginin öz-benlik üzerindeki etkisi oldukça azdır (Marsh, Trautwein, Lüdtke, Köller, ve Baumert, 2005).…”

A Comparative Study of Science Achievement and Self-concept during a Historical Transition

“…Besides having the Chinese majorities, both cities experienced British colony histories in the last century. Instead of repeating the inconsistent findings from the past, the comparability consideration may reduce the impact of nuisance variables, and thus, resolve the inconsistency from the within-and between-country examinations reported in the literature (see Shen & Pedulla, 2000).…”

“…The achievement improvement further supports development of student positive self-concept. This mutual reinforcement has been theorized in a reciprocal relation model (e.g., Marsh, 1990;Shen & Pedulla, 2000).…”