National Culture, Creativity, and Economic Productivity: What's the Relationship With Student Achievement?

• In Event: 75.062 - Poster Session 18
  In Poster Session: 75.062-5 - Shifting Paradigms in Schools and Classrooms

Abstract

Using Hofstede’s culture dimensions and World Values Survey dimensions, we conducted a series of multiple regressions to explore the relationship among national culture, creativity as measured by patents, economic productivity as measured by gross domestic product per capita, and student achievement as measured by TIMSS. The findings of this exploratory study highlight Long-term Orientation value from Hofstede’s national culture dimensions and Tradition vs. Secular-rational values from the World Values Survey as the most significant predictors of student academic achievement. A series of twelve regressions indicated significant relationships among student achievement, creativity, and economic productivity with models explaining anywhere between 19.9% and 76.0% of the variance among countries.

Authors

• Zheng Fang, South China Normal University

• Xianxuan Xu, Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting, LLC

• Leslie Grant, Old Dominion University

• James H. Stronge, College of William and Mary

• Thomas Joseph Ward, College of William and Mary