RUME 26
2024
Omaha, Nebraska
The College Mathematics Beliefs and Belonging Survey: Instrument Development and Validation
Page: 125
This contributed report describes the development and validation of a new measure—the College Mathematics Beliefs and Belonging (CMBB) survey. The CMBB provides a contemporary measurement of undergraduate students’ perceptions of their mathematical proficiency and reasoning, beliefs about mathematics, and sense of belonging in mathematics. Primarily first- and second-year undergraduate students in five courses at a large public university in the United States completed multiple surveys to provide the data used for survey development. Confirmatory factor analysis (N = 935) and a reliability analysis indicate that the CMBB is a survey with fifteen factors that adequately measure various aspects of perceived mathematical proficiency and reasoning, beliefs, and sense of belonging. The CMBB survey is intended for use by both researchers and instructors to assess undergraduate students’ perceptions across these three domains with the aim of improving students’ experiences in college mathematics courses.