Socio-Economic Status, Self-efficacy and Mathematics Performance: A Multilevel Structural Euation Model

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of socioeconomic status on individual and combination effects, and resilience to academic performance. For this purpose, 600 students who were selected by two stage cluster sampling methodology completed the Martin and Marsh Resiliency Questionnaire (2006) and their parents answered the International Socioeconomic Status Questionnaire. TIMSS (Which is repeated every four years for the country's performance in science and mathematics education to determine the trend of educational change and even the rate of decline and increased performance of students in participating countries after these years). Parents were also identified in three groups with high socioeconomic status, moderate, and low levels of this variable. Multilevel structural Equation Model was used to study and analyze the data. The results showed that socioeconomic status had a significant direct effect on academic performance in both levels of the student and the family, and the effect of resilience on academic performance was significant. The model has a good fit and 22% of students' performance variance at the student level and 28% of the variance in the performance of students at the family level was explained.