Increasing Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Student Teaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
Instrument Overview
The Attributions of Mathematical Excellence Scale (AMES) is designed to assess elementary teachers' beliefs about why students excel or struggle in mathematics. Its focus lies specifically on teachers' systems of racialized and gendered attribution beliefs. AMES consists of four subscales, each representing distinct lay psychological theories that aid individuals in making sense of the behavior of others. These subscales describe the following four attributions of mathematical excellence: genetic (AME-G), social (AME-S), personal (AME-P), and educational (AME-E). The genetic and social subscales characterize mathematical excellence as a fixed trait, while the personal and educational subscales characterize it as malleable.
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Organization
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
Schooling ; Teaching ; Mathematical Excellence ; Attribution Beliefs ; Elementary Education ; Teacher Beliefs ; Racialized Attribution ; Gendered Attribution
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
64 items
Administration
Computer
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Jacobson, E., Cross Francis, D., Willey, C., & Wilkins-Yel, K. (2022). Race, Gender, and Teacher Equity Beliefs: Construct Validation of the Attributions of Mathematical Excellence Scale. AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221130999
