Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire

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Description

The MRBQ is a 58-item, six-point Likert-scale questionnaire developed by Op ’t Eynde and colleagues to measure students’ beliefs about mathematics, themselves as mathematics learners, and their classroom social context.

Components

• Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire (MRBQ), experimental version with 58 items on a 6-point Likert scale: The MRBQ is an integrated questionnaire developed to measure students' beliefs about mathematics education, about the self in relation to mathematics, and about the social context of their class, unlike existing questionnaires that usually measure only one kind of beliefs. As printed, it is "the experimental version of the Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire (MRBQ) containing 58 items that are scored on a 6 point Likert-scale, from 0 (I completely disagree) to 5 (I totally agree)." It was administered to 365 Flemish junior high school students across 21 classrooms spanning different tracks. (Op 't Eynde et al. (2003))

Claims

• Belief factors are positively intercorrelated: a social-dynamic view of mathematics co-occurs with higher task value and confidence (r = .48) and more positive teacher beliefs (r = .41) [+W]

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Key Sources

• Op 't Eynde, P., & De Corte, E. (2003). Students' mathematics-related belief systems: Design and analysis of a questionnaire. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED475708

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