Roach, Donald Ashworth2022-01-182022-01-18Jun. 1981867https://hdl.handle.net/2139/52967doi: 10.2466/pms.1981.52.3.785In a study of 418 children in Grade 6 in Jamaica, the independent variables were gender, family size, birth order, occupational level, father's presence, preference for conceptual style, field dependence, reading achievement, and mental ability. Mathematics achievement was the dependent variable. Stepwise regression analysis yielded mental ability, reading achievement, and family size as the best predictors of achievement in mathematicsAcademic achievementPredictors of mathematics achievement in Jamaican elementary school children