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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
Volume 44, 2024 - Issue 3
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Student well-being and mathematical literacy performance in PISA 2018: a machine-learning approach

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Pages 340-357 | Received 30 Aug 2022, Accepted 20 May 2024, Published online: 30 May 2024
 

Abstract

One of the goals of the educational system is to promote the well-being of students due to its associated on their academic performance. This research aims to shed light on the main role of well-being variables (introduced by PISA 2018 for the first time, as far as our knowledge) in the mathematical competence throughout of the PISA 2018 evaluation with a sample of 35,943 Spanish students. Students ranged in age from 15 to 16 years old (SD = 0.288). Supervised learning techniques such as decision tree methodology, random forest, and a linear hierarchical model have been used throughout this study. The criterion variable was competency performance in mathematics, while the independent variables consisted of a total of 83 items extracted from the student well-being questionnaire. These predictors are grouped into five domains: physical, psychological, material, cognitive and social. We have proved that well-being plays an important role in mathematical understanding in PISA 2018. Specifically, social well-being is the most important variable in our study. To conclude, we observe that social well-being, contextualised in terms of the relationships that the students maintain with their teachers, peers and families, plays a detrimental role in mathematics achievement.

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