Open AccessConstruct validity of attitudes towards mathematics questionnaire
Author(s) -
Sanit Srikoon,
P. Thonjeang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1340/1/012019
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , construct validity , mathematics , statistic , goodness of fit , structural equation modeling , construct (python library) , statistics , psychology , mathematics education , residual , psychometrics , computer science , algorithm , programming language
One goal of basic education in mathematics is to help students develop an attitudes towards mathematics. The purpose of this research was to validate of the attitudes towards mathematics questionnaire. Sample are 204 students for validating an attitudes towards mathematics questionnaire. The attitudes towards mathematics consists of the 14 items for self-assessment. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to confirm the construct validity. The results confirmed that the construct validity of these test an excellent fit. The results show that the fitness index of validating attitudes towards mathematics questionnaire were as follow: statistic of 68.77 (degrees of freedom = 53, p = 0.071), and the χ 2/df ratio having a value of 1.30 indicates a good fit. The comparative fit index (CFI) is 0.979, and Tucker-Lewis coefficient (TLI) is 0.964, Root mean square error approximation (RMSEA) is 0.028, Standardized Root Mean Residual (SRMR) is 0.030. All the indicators indicated that were a goodness of fit between the empirical data and the hypothetical measurement model.