Validating the Mathematics Funds of Knowledge Survey: Measuring Factor Structure and Invariance Across Gender, Age, and Ethnicity

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Abstract

Confirmatory factor analysis is used to examine the latent variables and measurement invariance of the Mathematics Funds of Knowledge Survey. A pilot study will be expanded to include high school students across the country. A best-fit model will be determined between single-factor, correlational, higher-order, and bi-factor models. Measurement invariance testing will determine if the best model will have configural, metric, and scalar invariance across gender (male and female), age (younger and older), and ethnicity (White and non-White).

Author

• Tiffini Pruitt-Britton, Southern Methodist University