Analyzing the associations between motivation and academic performance via the mediator variables of specific mathematic cognitive learning strategies in different subject domains of higher education

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 1 Results of measurement invariance testing between motivation, learning strategies and the persons in group low and high performance separated by median split (N = 548)

	df	χ²	χ²/df	CFI	TLI	RMSEA	SRMR	Δ CFI	Δ RMSEA	Δ SRMR
Configural invariance	432	642.83	1.49	0.949	0.934	0.042	0.046
Metric invariance	447	666.80	1.49	0.946	0.934	0.042	0.048	0.003	0.000	0.002
Scalar invariance	462	695.15	1.51	0.943	0.932	0.043	0.050	0.003	0.002	0.002
Strict invariance	486	714.91	1.47	0.944	0.937	0.041	0.050	0.001	0.005	0.000