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Batashvili, Michael; Cipora, Krzysztof; Hunt, Thomas E. – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Maths anxiety is common and refers to feelings of anxiety, fear and other negative emotions and thoughts in individuals when confronted with mathematical tasks or numerical information. Self-report measures of maths anxiety have been created, but the majority are in English and are not culturally relevant to all countries. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Mathematics Anxiety, Anxiety
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Kadosh, Mazi; Hen, Meirav; Ferrari, Joseph R. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
Many college students consider statistical courses as frightening and demanding, yielding high anxiety and low competence, and correlating with maladaptive academic behaviors and low achievement. With undergraduate students, the present pre-post study compared a supportive online teaching program utilizing mandatory statistical exercises (n = 37)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Statistics Education, Statistics
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Patkin, Dorit; Greenstein, Yoram – Teacher Development, 2020
This study explores effects of teaching experience and specialized mathematics education on mathematics anxiety and mathematics teaching anxiety. Fifty-nine female pre-service and in-service mathematics primary school teachers with varied specialized mathematics education and teaching experience responded to a questionnaire measuring mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Females
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Heyd-Metzuyanim, Einat – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
This study uses a new communicational lens that conceptualizes the activity of learning mathematics as interplay between mathematizing and identifying in order to study how the emotional, social, and cognitive aspects of learning mathematics interact with one another. The proposed framework is used to analyze the case of Idit, a girl who started…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Academic Failure, Mathematics Achievement
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Leshem, Shosh; Markovits, Zvia – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
English is an international language used all over the world. Mathematics is the language of sciences but it is also a language used in everyday life. Although both are perceived as languages, mathematics and English are considered as two completely distinct disciplines. In this paper we first discuss English and mathematics as languages. Then we…
Descriptors: Mathematics, English, Language Role, Global Approach
Sfard, Anna; Prusak, Anna – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
In the attempt to account for striking differences between learning activities of immigrant mathematics students from the former Soviet Union and of their native Israeli classmates, the authors introduce the notions of "actual" and "designated identities." These identities are subsequently presented as important factors that…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities
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Nasser, Fadia; Birenbaum, Menucha – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
This study examined a structural model of mathematics achievement of 2 culturally different groups of Jewish and Arab 8th graders in terms of 5 learner-related variables, namely, gender, epistemological beliefs, self-efficacy, attitudes, and mathematics anxiety. Multigroup structural modeling analysis indicated that the goodness of fit of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Anxiety
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Mevarech, Zemira R. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1985
This study reported the contribution of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) employed in traditional and individualized classrooms to cognitive and personal growth of third-grade disadvantaged children. Results showed that CAI facilitated the acquisition of mathematics skills, alleviated mathematics anxiety, and reduced external locus of control.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth
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Mevarech, Zemira R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1991
Examines the effects of cooperative and individualistic computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs on cognitive and affective variables in Israeli grade six mathematics classes. Analyses of the data indicate that students who used CAI for drill and practice in pairs performed better than students who used the same program individually. (30…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Processes
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Nasser, Fadia M. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
This study examined the extent to which statistics and mathematics anxiety, attitudes toward mathematics and statistics, motivation and mathematical aptitude can explain the achievement of Arabic speaking pre-service teachers in introductory statistics. Complete data were collected from 162 pre-service teachers enrolled in an academic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Middle School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Achievement Tests
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Mathematics at the Centre." This volume features 60 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Abr…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Textbooks