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Download full textYates, Shirley – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2009
Teachers frequently encounter students with learned helplessness who are discouraged, turned off, or have given up trying to learn mathematics. Although learned helplessness has a long history in psychology, there has been no reliable means by which mathematics teachers can identify students exhibiting these debilitating yet changeable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Helplessness, Student Behavior
