Exploring high school students’ careless or insufficient effort Survey responses when investigating attitudes toward Mathematics

Authors

Xiaohui Wang, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mayra Ortiz Galarza, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Sergey Grigorian, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Aaron T. Wilson, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
John Knight, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-4-2023

Abstract

A modified, bilingual Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) instrument was administered to 1,258 high school students in South Texas in an NSF-funded project on informal learning of mathematics and near peer mentoring. We explore students’ survey response behaviors and examine the existence of careless and insufficient effort (CIE) responses. This is empirical research for handling the challenge of CIE responses that leads to improved survey data quality, thus eventually validating the intervention effect of the mathematical informal learning project.

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Recommended Citation

Wang, Xiaohui, Mayra Ortiz_Galarza, Sergey Grigorian, Aaron Wilson, and John Knight. 2023. “Exploring High School Students’ Careless or Insufficient Effort Survey Responses When Investigating Attitudes toward Mathematics.” In Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, edited by T. Lamberg and D. Moss, 2:106–15. University of Reno, Nevada. http://doi.org/10.51272/pmena.45.2023

First Page

106

Last Page

115

Publication Title

Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education