Abstract

DIEGO-MANTECON, José Manuel  and  CORDOBA-GOMEZ, Francisco Javier. Adaptation and validation of the Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire (MRBQ) to the Colombian context with high school students. Educ. mat. [online]. 2019, vol.31, n.1, pp.66-91.  Epub June 08, 2020. ISSN 2448-8089.  https://doi.org/10.24844/em3101.03.

This article presents the adaptation and validation of the MRBQ (Mathematics-Related Beliefs Questionnaire) to the Colombian context. The MRBQ is an instrument for assessing student mathematics-related beliefs, orig-inally developed at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and validated in several countries. The instrument was administered to 670 students, from public high schools in Medellín (Colombia). The analyses revealed that these student mathematics-related beliefs are better represented with a ten-factor model, rather than with a four-factor model as suggested in previous studies of the MRBQ. The 10 factors explain more faithfully the original theoretical model and account for a variance of 56.34%, higher than that obtained in previous research. These results not only suggest significant improvements of the MRBQ, but also provide the basis for developing a reliable tool to assess beliefs in the Colombian context. To what these authors know, a consistent instrument has not been designed yet in this context for identifying beliefs, and consequently studying their influence on the learning of mathematics.

Keywords : Mathematics-related beliefs; Secondary education; Questionnaire; Factor analysis.

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