The Relationship between Primary School Teacher and Student Attitudes towards Science and Technology

Table 3

Multilevel regression models for the prediction of end of school year students’ enjoyment of science and technology.

	Model 0		Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Model 5		Model 6
	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE
Fixed Part
Intercept girls	3.043^***	0.022	3.043^***	0.022	2.954^***	0.118	3.055^***	0.063	3.071^***	0.053	3.068^***	0.055	3.102^***	0.064
Intercept boys	3.237^***	0.021	3.237^***	0.021	3.136^***	0.117	3.135^***	0.061	3.146^***	0.051	3.142^***	0.053	3.175^***	0.063
Student enjoyment pretest							0.523^***	0.022	0.525^***	0.027	0.526^***	0.027	0.526^***	0.027
Teacher enjoyment											0.059^**	0.025	0.041	0.026
Teacher gender													−0.068^*	0.030
Random Part
Level: school year
School year					0.052	0.038	0.013	0.010	0.008	0.007	0.009	0.007	0.013	0.010
Level: teacher
Intercept variance girls			0.067^***	0.016	0.027^**	0.010	0.022^***	0.007	0.021^**	0.007	0.021^**	0.007	0.018^**	0.007
Intercept variance boys	0.017^*	0.008	0.009	0.007	0.001	0.004	0.002	0.005	0.001	0.005	0.000	0.000
Intercept-slope covgGirls pretest									−0.013	0.006	−0.014	0.006	−0.015	0.006
Intercept-slopevCov boys pretest									−0.004	0.005	−0.004	0.004	0.000	0.000
Slope variance pretest									0.018^*	0.009	0.019^*	0.009	0.019^*	0.009
Level: student
Intercept variance girls	0.432^***	0.020	0.362^***	0.018	0.362^***	0.018	0.269^***	0.013	0.265^***	0.013	0.265^***	0.013	0.265^***	0.013
Intercept variance boys	0.378^***	0.018	0.361^***	0.018	0.361^***	0.018	0.290^***	0.014	0.282^***	0.014	0.281^***	0.014	0.282^***	0.014
Deviance	3520.748		3425.493^***		3400.837^***		2914.978^***		2901.112^**		2895.568^*		2891.321^*
Deviance difference			95.255		24.656		485.859		13.866		5.544		4.247
Degrees of freedom			df = 2		df = 1		df = 1		df = 3		df = 1		df = 1
ICC girls				0.156		0.075		0.076		0.073		0.073		0.063
ICC boys				0.045		0.024		0.003		0.007		0.004		0.000
Proportional reduction student variance girls				0.162		0.000		0.257		0.015		0.000		0.000
Proportional reduction student variance boys				0.045		0.000		0.197		0.028		0.004		−0.004
Proportional reduction teacher variance girls						0.597		0.185		0.045		0.000		0.143
Proportional reduction teacher variance boys						0.471		0.889		−1.000		0.500		1.000
Chi^2 posttest boys-girls best fit model	42.129^***		32.691^***		27.055		6.924^***		6.162^*		6.167^*		6.306^*

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