CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS OF STUDENTS’ SCIENCE SUCCESS BASED ON GENDER VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM TIMSS

TitleCROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS OF STUDENTS’ SCIENCE SUCCESS BASED ON GENDER VARIABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM TIMSS
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsAşkın, ÖE, Öz, E
JournalJournal of Baltic Science Education
Volume19
Issue2
Start Page186-200
PaginationContinuous
Date PublishedApril/2020
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN1648-3898
Other NumbersE-ISSN 2538-7138
Keywordscross-country comparison, gender variability, heterogeneous choice models, science success
Abstract

Identifying key determinants of success plays an important role in efforts of assessing the current state of educational practices and implementing effective actions to improve academic performance. Given how important is accurate identification of these determinants for valid comparisons, the aim of this research was to present extensive comparative results on 8th grade students' science success for 39 countries. To this end, a total number of 229,493 students' information obtained from the last cycle of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study was handled. Unlike previous studies in which success has been tried to be explained with some factors, this research extended the literature by investigating the effective factors as well as gender-related variability on science success with a holistic view. Using heterogeneous choice models, unobserved heterogeneity caused by gender difference was tested and controlled. The findings showed that gender variability was evident for 10 countries. Furthermore, factors associated with students' future educational goals, home educational resources and confidence were found as the common determinators of science success in all participant countries. Another notable finding was all factors, except time spent on doing homework, tended to differentiate the success status between girls and boys of 22 countries.

URLhttp://oaji.net/articles/2020/987-1586941252.pdf
DOI10.33225/jbse/20.19.186
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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