TABLE 3.

Correlations of motivations, epistemic beliefs, and science achievement.

	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
1. Intrinsic motivation	–	0.50	0.41	0.26	–	0.41	0.29	0.32
2. Instrumental motivation	0.39	–	0.26	0.12	0.41	–	0.15	0.18
3. Epistemic beliefs	0.37	0.21	–	0.28	0.32	0.16	–	0.37
4. Achievement	0.33	0.09	0.29	–	0.33	0.16	0.31	–

All correlations were statistically significant at p < 0.001. The lower triangle in the left column is the Singapore data; the upper triangle in the left column is the Hong Kong data. The lower triangle in the right column is the Canada data; the upper triangle in the right column is the Finland data.