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Ilknur Gülsen Turgut; Nur Sebnem Bakir – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
This study examined the relationships between factors contributing to high school students' mathematics achievement. Three hundred fourteen high school students participated in the study. We collected the data through the "Self-Efficacy Scale for Mathematics Literacy," "Bidimensional Mathematics Anxiety Scale,"…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Self Efficacy, Correlation
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Renata A. Mendes; Natalie J. Loxton; Nicholas G. Browning; Rebecca K. Lawrence – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Psychological interventions offer a unique approach to enhancing the educational experience for university students. Unlike traditional teaching methods, these interventions directly address cognitive, emotional, and behavioural factors without requiring changes to course content, delivery methods, or involvement from the teaching team. This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Statistics, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
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José Hernando Ávila-Toscano; Leonardo José Vargas-Delgado; Yurley Alejandra Badillo-Rueda – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2025
Functional models of anxiety based on dispositional variables have gained scientific acceptance. Their application to investigate constructs such as statistical anxiety can facilitate understanding and intervention. This study aimed to estimate whether dispositional variables such as worry and its negative consequences mediated the relationship…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Statistics, Universities
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Xiyuan Jia; Xinwu Zhang; Andrew Rule; Yue Ma – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Despite increased investment in rural education in recent years, the academic achievement of ethnic minority students in rural China continues to lag behind their Han Chinese peers. Few studies have used up-to-date data to measure the size of this achievement gap, and none have examined whether differential math attitudes and math anxiety play a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Ethnic Groups, Achievement Gap
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Yu Zhou; Bin Jing; Jing Zhang; Zhongling Pi; Hongliang Ma – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Students' engagement in math is essential for enhancing the effectiveness of math instruction. Previous studies examined the factors influencing math engagement, including parents, teachers, and students, however, few conducted a joint analysis of these variables. This study aimed to investigate the effects of these variables on math engagement by…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Parents, Mathematics Anxiety, Parent Attitudes
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Frank C. Butler; Deborah M. Mullen; Kathleen K. Wheatley – Journal of Education for Business, 2025
Anecdotal evidence suggests that students with quantitative business majors (e.g., finance, accounting, data analytics, economics) outperform students from less quantitatively rigorous majors (e.g., management, human resource management, marketing) on a business simulation game at a mid-sized, southeastern, public, AACSB accredited university. We…
Descriptors: Business Education, Majors (Students), Finance Occupations, Accounting