期刊名称：Educational Measurement and Evaluation Review
印刷版ISSN：2094-5876
电子版ISSN：2467-6586
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
页码：11
语种：English
出版社：Philippine Educational Measurement and Evaluation Association
摘要：This study is aimed to investigate the construct validity of TIMSS 2003 student’s questionnaire among 8th grade Malaysian students’ performance in science. Data from 5314 eighth-grade students (3071 male and 2243 female, in the age 14.3 years old) from Malaysia who participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 were analysed for this study. Principal component analysis was performed to determine underlying constructs among items on the TIMSS 2003 student’s questionnaire. Factor analysis showed that the 16 items from the questionnaire were distributed among four factors for the groups under study. The overall findings showed that attitudes towards science and students’ science self-concept were important factors based on the variance on science achievement. Attitudes towards school and family background were also significant factors on the variance on science achievement but their effects were less than the first three factors.
