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Peer reviewedEfklides, Anastasia; Papadaki, Maria; Papantoniou, Georgia; Kiosseoglou, Gregoris – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1998
Aims to delimit the possible individual differences in feelings of difficulty experienced in relation to mathematics. Shows that feelings of difficulty form their own system, mainly influenced by performance and cognitive ability; also, gender interacts with personal and task characteristics. Discusses educational implications of these results.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries
Wooley, Daniel – 1982
Sixty subjects, 30 males and 30 females, grades 7-9, were given an estimation and comparison mathematics test consisting of high and low difficulty level problems. Performances as measured by total error scores were compared as functions of sex and anxiety separately for high and low difficulty problems. There was a significant main effect of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Estimation (Mathematics), Junior High Schools
