Non-Cognitive Influences on Academic Achievement

Evidence from PISA and TIMSS
  • Jihyun Lee
  • Lazar Stankov
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Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Research in learning Innovations book series (CARL)

Abstract

Recent large-scale international assessments of school achievement [e.g., the Programme of International Student Achievement (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)] contain background questionnaires that collect information about student characteristics, teaching practices, schools’ administrative practices as well as demographics and system-level investments related to education.

Keywords

Academic Achievement Item Response Theory Confidence Score Mathematics Achievement Math Anxiety 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jihyun Lee
    • 1
  • Lazar Stankov
    • 2
  1. 1.University of New South WalesAustralia
  2. 2.School of PsychologyThe University of SydneyAustralia

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