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Background of PISA
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is the
most popular international student assessment in the
world that assesses 15-year-old students knowledge and
skills in mathematics literacy, reading literacy, and science
literacy
About 70 countries participated in PISA 2012 including the
U.S.
The PISA 2012 results showed that the U.S. students fell
behind students from other developed countries especially
in math.
Analysis
Use Excel to run frequency on the questions for each
school
Performed a T-Test (Google Sheets) to determine which
questions contained significant differences of the
students perceptions between the two schools
Selected and categorized the significant items to
summarize the results
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Thinking about the teachers at your school: to what extent do you agree with the following statements? 1=Strongly agree 2=Agree 3=Disagree 4=Strongly Disagree
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Suppose that you are a student in the following situation: Each week, your math
teacher gives a short quiz. Recently you have done badly on these quizzes. Today
you are trying to figure out why. How likely are you to have these thoughts or
feelings in this situation? 1=very likely 2=Likely 3=Slightly likely 4=Not at all
likely
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Thinking about your views on mathematics: to what extent do you agree with the following statements? 1=Strongly agree 2=Agree 3=Disagree 4=Strongly Disagree
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