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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of students’ attitude toward mathematics on difference in mathematics achievement across TIMSS 2011-2015. According to the results of TIMSS, the Korean eighth-graders have revealed the increase in mathematics achievement since TIMSS 1995. However, their mathematics achievement have decreased for the first time in TIMSS 2015. Therefore in this study, the author have attempted to analyse the results of TIMSS(in mathematics domain) 2011-2015 with correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis to reveal the attitudinal factors which influence the differences in mathematics achievement across assessment years. As a result, it appeared that mathematical interest have influenced the differences in mathematics achievement across TIMSS 2011-2015 among countries at fourth grade students in mathematics. However, it appeared that in eight grade, students’ attitudes toward mathematics did not influence their achievement across TIMSS 2011-2015 among countries. Therefore we need to explore further to identify the factors that influence the differences in mathematics achievement across assessment years.