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Ruifan Luo; Aoxue Zhang; Yangyang Wang; Hongxia Li; Yanli Xu; Kaiyue Guo; Jiwei Si – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Both teacher support and math attitudes have been identified as associated with math anxiety in primary school children. However, little is known about how they are interrelated longitudinally. Aims: The study was designed to examine the associations among perceived teacher support, math attitudes, and math anxiety in Chinese primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Liu, Yue; Wang, Chuang; Liu, Jian; Liu, Hongyun – Educational Psychology, 2022
The primary goals of this study are to investigate if cognitive activation increases mathematics self-efficacy, which in turn alleviates anxiety and to examine the moderating role of internal migrant status. Hierarchical linear models and multilevel structural equation models were employed to datasets of 3088 fourth graders from 57 classrooms in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Anxiety, Migrant Children
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Zhou, Da; Du, Xiaofeng; Hau, Kit-Tai; Luo, Haifeng; Feng, Pingting; Liu, Jian – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study investigated the mediating roles of self-efficacy and anxiety on the effects of teacher-student relationship on mathematical problem-solving ability. A total of 1667 fifth graders from central China participated in the large-scale survey. The findings indicated that (1) teacher-student relationship had a direct and positive effect on…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Dowker, Ann; Cheriton, Olivia; Horton, Rachel; Mark, Winifred – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
Most studies of children's attitudes to mathematics have dealt with children in second grade or later, and have suggested that attitudes deteriorate, and anxiety increases with age. The present study investigated attitudes to mathematics in 67 English and 49 Chinese children at the end of their first year of school. The participants were given…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Pictorial Stimuli
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Xu, Binyan, Ed.; Zhu, Yan, Ed.; Lu, Xiaoli, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book seeks to illustrate the research on mathematics competencies and disposition in China according to the conceptual development and empirical investigation perspective. Mathematics education in China has a distinguishing feature a focus of attention to mathematical competency. Paradoxically, there has not been an explicit, refined, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, Evaluation Methods