Compared anxiety levels of graduate-level education majors using either hand-held calculators or statistical software in an educational research course. Found no statistically significant differences in anxiety by treatment group, but did find a significant treatment group effect by gender. Females using the software showed significantly higher…

The hypothesis that previously found effects of self-adapted testing (SAT) are attributable to examinees' having an increased perception of control over a stressful testing situation was studied with 377 college students who took computerized adaptive tests or SAT. The strongest preference for SAT was seen in individuals with the highest…

Presents a study that focuses on Irish and American students' changes in attitude toward mathematics as they make the transition from school to university. Concludes that students from both Ireland and the United States experience negative mathematical attitudes and anxiety. (ASK)

The study investigated the relationship between mathematics anxiety and mathematics teacher efficacy among elementary preservice teachers. Participants included 28 elementary preservice teachers at a mid-size university in the southeastern United States who had just completed a mathematics methods course. Data sources included the Mathematics…

Although the number of computers in the school system is increasing, many schools are not using computers to their capacity. One reason for this may be computer anxiety on the part of the teacher. A review of the computer anxiety literature reveals little information on the subject, and findings from previous studies suggest that basic controlled…

Grade point average, mathematics course enrollment, sex, spelling, and language expression were found to be more potent predictors of mathematics anxiety than were mathematics achievement variables. Verbal skill, as well as taking more mathematics courses, seemed to be good predictors of overall mathematics achievement. (MNS)

Investigates the effects of mathematics anxiety and sex on attitudes related to achievement in computer literacy: computer anxiety, computer confidence, and computer liking. Over 350 students in junior high, secondary, and college classes were involved. (MNS)

Investigated sex differences in computer attitude and aptitude and the relationship of these variables, math aptitude, math anxiety, and scholastic achievement to computer involvement among college freshmen (N=941). Sex differences were found in attitudes, computer aptitude, and math prerequisites. Computer aptitude related to math ability and…

Elementary education majors were administered the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) to determine their level of anxiety toward mathematics. Results suggested that a high proportion of the female students were math anxious, and this could affect their pupils. (MNS)

A lecture method was compared with a method based on questioning sequences that guided students to discover mathematical principles. Students with high levels of mathematics anxiety had significantly lower achievement. Students with high anxiety benefited more from the expository approach; those with low anxiety benefited more from the discovery…

This study evaluates the relationship between college students' level of mathematics anxiety and the strategies they employ to cope with it. It also examines both counseling and mathematics faculty's ratings of the same coping strategies that the student subjects evaluated. Community college students (n=279) enrolled in either a remedial algebra…

This study examined classes at a university within each of four disciplines that differed in the degree to which they emphasized mathematical/quantitative skills. The disciplines were: (1) Social/Behavioral Sciences; (2) Business; (3) Physical Sciences; and (4) Applied Mathematics. A number of distinctive characteristics were found for each…

This paper is based on the on-going research, work, and teaching carried out in the Mathematics Foundations Course (MFC) at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Teaching is a very intimate and rewarding experience for the mathematics lecturer as well as for the adult student. Mathematics lecturers and adults should be challenged by their…

The purpose of this study was to examine the computer-related experiences and anxiety of mathematics education majors across a ten-year period, the 1985-1986 through 1994-1995 academic years. This study centers on 10 years of data collection concerning mathematics education majors at West Virginia University in terms of their previous computer…

Examines math anxiety programs in Virginia's colleges, reviewing institutional characteristics, student selection and assessment, and program objectives, emphases, and methods. Concludes that math anxiety programs are few in number, rarely used in remediation, inconsistently defined, and share no single concept of the nature of math anxiety or…