Psychometric properties of mathematical self-efficacy scale in elementary students

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Mehdi Hasani ¹ , Reza Dastjerdi ² , Mohamadreza Asadi Yoonesi ³ , Majid Pakdaman ⁴

1 - Ph.D student of Educational Psychology, Azad University of Qainat Branch and lecturer of university
2 - Assistant professor of psychology. Birjand university of medical sciences. Birjand. lran
3 - Assistant professor. Department of psychology, University of Birjand, birjand, Iran
4 - Assistant professor, Department of psychology, Qaenat branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaenat, Iran

Received: 2022-06-18 Accepted : 2022-06-18 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Reliability, Validity, Self-efficacy, Elementary mathematical self-efficacy,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to validate the Mathematical Self-efficacy Questionnaire developed by the American Longitudinal Studies Association based on the Liu & Koirala (2009), and May (2009) Mathematical Academic Self-efficacy Questionnaires for high school students. According to the need and necessity, the statistical population of Birjand's elementary school students was administered in the school year of 97-98. Multistage random cluster sampling was used to select 24 schools and from each schools select one class to answer the math self-efficacy questionnaire. In order to overcome the problem of missing single data, in SPSS statistical software, with the help of Hot-Deck Imputation method, data were completed and out of 460 subjects, 441 subjects answered as sample size. The final was analyzed. The findings of this study were analyzed using SPSS 21, LISREL 8.80 and R 3.6.1 statistical methods and two descriptive findings and the research hypothesis test and structural equation modeling in the measurement model section. The RMSEA was lower than 0.08 and all GFI, AGFI, NFI, NNFI, and CFI indices were above 0.90, confirming the validity of the math self-efficacy questionnaire for elementary students