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ERIC Number: EJ1417427
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
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Teacher Expectations and Their Relations with Primary School Students' Achievement, Self-Concept, and Anxiety in Mathematics
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v27 n2 p567-586 2024
Teacher expectations not only relate positively to student achievement, but also to student beliefs such as their self-concept. Nevertheless, most studies focus on the relations with student achievement, followed by studies on beliefs. Beliefs are a significant determinant of academic success and can include student self-concept or emotions, such as anxiety. The extent to which anxiety can be influenced by teacher expectations has been investigated in very few studies. This paper examined how teacher expectations related to changes in student achievement, self-concept, and anxiety in mathematics within a school year. The data were from a longitudinal study "Outcomes of teacher education", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based on 28 teachers and 509 primary school students. Teacher expectations were operationalized using the residual approach. Student mathematics achievement was assessed via a standardized mathematics test and their self-concept as well as their mathematics anxiety via a questionnaire. The multi-level structure was considered in the analyses, because the interclass-correlation of student mathematics achievement exceeded the critical value of 10%. The results showed that teacher expectations were positively related to student achievement as well as self-concept and negatively related to anxiety towards mathematics. The change in the explained variance was small (self-concept and anxiety) to large (achievement). The results extend findings on the expectation effect in the classroom, as they focus not only on student achievement but also on student beliefs and are discussed regarding their significance for academic success.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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