AUTHOR=Abín Amanda , Núñez José Carlos , Rodríguez Celestino , Cueli Marisol , García Trinidad , Rosário Pedro 

TITLE=Predicting Mathematics Achievement in Secondary Education: The Role of Cognitive, Motivational, and Emotional Variables

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00876

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00876

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Academic achievement in general, and in mathematics in particular, is positively associated with cognitive abilities, but also with emotional and motivational skills. The objective of this study was to analyze the prediction strength of cognitive, motivational, and emotional variables in mathematics achievement throughout high school, considering students gender and age. A large sample of 2365 Spanish students from the four years of high school (12 to 16 years old) participated in the study. Students provided information about their intellectual skills, perceived competence in mathematics, perceived utility of mathematics, intrinsic interest in learning, mathematics anxiety, and their causal attributions (for failure and for success), and of their achievement in mathematics. Data showed differences according to gender and the school grade level. The motivational and affective variables did not seem to play an important a role in this relationship as predicted in the current study. The results of this study are discussed in light of previous research.