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Acar, Ömer; Türkmen, Lütfullah; Bilgin, Ahmet – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
We examined the influence of several students' cognitive and motivational factors on 8th graders' science achievement and also gender differences on factors that significantly contribute to the science achievement model. A total of 99 girls and 83 boys responded all the instruments used in this study. Results showed that girls outperformed boys on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Achievement, Grade 8, Student Motivation
Birenbaum, Menucha; Tatsuoka, Curtis; Xin, Tao – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2005
A diagnostic model for large-scale assessment was applied to TIMSS data to compare mathematics performance of eighth graders from three countries--the US, Singapore, and Israel. Compared were attribute mastery probabilities for content, skills and cognitive processes underlying students' performance on the 1999 TIMSS-R mathematics test. Also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Tests

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