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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Rabovsky, Sarah J.; Silver, Daniel; Lazar-Wolfe, Rosalynn – AERA Open, 2021
Low-income students and students of color are faced with pervasively lower levels of opportunity to learn compared with their peers, creating unequal opportunities for educational success. Textbooks, which serve as the backbone of the curriculum in most mathematics classrooms, present a potentially powerful tool to help mitigate unequal…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Access to Education, Mathematics
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Simzar, Rahila; Domina, Thurston; Tran, Cathy – AERA Open, 2016
This study uses student panel data to examine the association between algebra placement and student motivation for mathematics. Changes in achievement goals, expectancy, and task value for students in eighth-grade algebra are compared with those of peers placed in lower-level mathematics courses (N = 3,306). In our sample, students placed in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 8, Student Placement, Student Motivation
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Safavian, Nayssan; Conley, AnneMarie – AERA Open, 2016
This study used the Eccles et al. expectancy-value (E-V) theory to test the influence of motivation on mathematics achievement and enrollment using data from a cohort of 926 seventh-grade prealgebra students (49% male, 76% Hispanic, 76% low income, and 55% English learner). E-V beliefs were assessed in seventh grade along with achievement, and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Values, Theories, Early Adolescents