Deletion of the parent/teacher items was surprising. In previous research, attitudes of parents and teachers about math have been regarded as extremely important, even to the extent that some studies suggest that a teacher’s or parent’s attitude can motivate or discourage students from pursuing math or may encourage them to do so (Dwyer, 1993; Kenschaft, 1991; Shashaani, 1995). Nonetheless, these items were dropped because of extremely low item-to-total correlations, which requires some consideration.