Article: Self-beliefs and reading achievement of elementary-school students in Hong Kong and the united states: results from the PIRLS 2001 assessment.

Student self-beliefs are significantly related to a number of academic outcomes. This study was designed to examine the relationship between self-beliefs and reading achievement of elementary-school students from cross-cultural contexts. Students included in these analyses were from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2001 International Samples (fourth-graders) from Hong Kong and the United States. Several self-belief variables were examined and variance estimation procedures for complex sampling designs were employed. There were several significant findings from this study and these results identify significant relationships between student ...

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