Explanatory latent variable modeling of mathematical ability in primary school : crossing the border between psychometrics and psychology

Explanatory latent variable modeling of mathematical ability in primary school : crossing the border between.. psychometrics

In the remainder of this thesis, the focus is shifted to other determinants of students’ mathematics ability related to contemporary mathematics education, such as the

The experimental programs investigated had negligibly small to large positive effects on mathematics performance, compared to the control group in which students usually followed

The cross-tabulation of GML with class membership shows that students with a weak mathematics level were classified much more often in the No Written Working class, and less often

Findings showed that two changes contributed to the performance decline: a shift in students’ typical strategy choice from a more accurate strategy (the traditional algorithm) to

Therefore, a partial Choice /No-Choice design was used: in the Choice condition students could choose whether they used a written or mental strategy in solving a set of complex

The main results are discussed in three sections: (a) repertoire and distribution of strategies in the choice condition, (b) strategy performance data (accuracy and speed) from

In the present application, we used between-item MIRT models with two dimensions or abilities: (a) computational skills: the ability to solve numerical expression format problems,