期刊名称：Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
印刷版ISSN：2350-7756
电子版ISSN：2350-8442
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：3
页码：141-147
出版社：Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas
摘要：Performance of students in mathematics has been the focus of so many studies in education.
Its fluctuating record in national and international arena calls the attention of every researcher in
mathematics to refocus their attention to identifying latent that possibly explain this performance. This
current study believes that students’ performance in mathematics can be predicted by some latent variables.
These sets of possibly correlated manifest variables are combined to form latent variables that are
transformed into a set of values of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components. These
components would then become the input to the model predicting secondary students’ performance in
mathematics. Moreover, Regression Analysis was employed to develop a model predicting secondary
students’ performance in mathematics. The study revealed that peer relation index, luxury index, and
personal characteristics were significant predictors of Mathematics performance among secondary
students. More so, it supports social-cognitive theory and strengthens its foundation that cognition and
social relation greatly determines the behavior and performance of social individuals.
