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Nielsen, Tine; Kreiner, Svend – Cogent Education, 2018
Motivated by experience with students' psychological barriers to learning statistics, we modified and extended the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) to develop a contemporary and valid (face, content, criterion and construct) Danish measure of attitudes and relationship towards statistics for use with higher education students taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety, Test Construction
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Ren, Lixin; Smith, Wendy M. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2018
This study examines how various teacher characteristics and contextual factors are related to early primary teachers' beliefs about mathematical teaching and learning and teachers' attitudes toward their own learning of mathematics. A total of 396 early primary teachers across Nebraska participated in the study. Teacher characteristics and…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Context Effect, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Ramirez, Gerardo; Shaw, Stacy T.; Maloney, Erin A. – Educational Psychologist, 2018
Mathematics anxiety is a pervasive issue in education that requires attention from both educators and researchers to help students reach their full academic potential. This review provides an overview of past research that has investigated the association between math anxiety and math achievement, factors that can cause math anxiety,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Skills
Hatcher, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how professional development on the topics of mathematics anxiety and incremental theories of intelligence affect the planning and instruction of mathematics by classroom teachers, as well as changes in student mindset and grit as perceived by teachers. This study was conducted at a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Anxiety, Intelligence, Mathematics Instruction
Johnson, Barbara L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Although early childhood and elementary educators teach mathematics to children, many of them possess negative attitudes and beliefs about mathematics such as math anxiety and low mathematics self-concept. Understanding how those attitudes and beliefs developed is critical in order to effect change. This study explored the mathematics experience…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Yildirim, Selda; Yildirim, Hüseyin Hüsnü – Turkish Journal of Education, 2019
In this study, the mediating roles of perceived teacher support and students' mathematics self-beliefs on the feedback process were investigated in The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) context in Turkey. PISA 2012 mathematics scores and questionnaire responses of 4848 15-year-old students were analyzed. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Anxiety, Predictor Variables, Feedback (Response)
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Gresham, Gina; Burleigh, Caroline – Teaching Education, 2019
Early childhood preservice teachers participated in a qualitative multiple case study to explore and examine the effectiveness of reform-based constructivist methods used in a mathematics methods course to change their mathematics anxiety, mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics teachers' efficacy beliefs. Findings indicated that instructor's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Self Efficacy
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Erdener, Kevser; Kandemir, Mehmet Ali – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the reasons of the students' attitudes towards interactive whiteboard (IWB) use in mathematics classrooms in middle schools and high schools. For this purpose the effect of IWB's features, students' mathematics anxiety, teachers' ICT integration, students' mathematics achievement and gender to students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Uyar, Seyma – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
In the current study, the appropriateness of the Mathematics Attitude Questionnaire administered to middle school 8th grade students in the TIMSS 2015 application to the exploratory structural equation and confirmatory factor analysis models was examined. The study was conducted on 6079 students making up the sample of Turkey. In the TIMSS 2015…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Szucs, Denes; Mammarella, Irene C. – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2020
Mathematics is often perceived as a difficult subject by many students, parents and teachers alike. Difficulties with the subject are most often attributed to cognitive factors (lack of ability, preparedness, practice and knowledge). Emotional factors are often overlooked and are easily written off as potential persistent and serious causes of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, Emotional Response, Cognitive Restructuring
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Grays, Sharnita D.; Rhymer, Katrina N.; Swartzmiller, Melissa D. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
Explicit timing is an empirically validated intervention to increase problem completion rates by exposing individuals to a stopwatch and explicitly telling them of the time limit for the assignment. Though explicit timing has proven to be effective for groups of students, some students may not respond well to explicit timing based on factors such…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5
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García-Santillán, Arturo; Rojas-Kramer, Carlos; Moreno-García, Elena; Ramos-Hernández, Jesica – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine the variables that explain the anxiety towards mathematics in college students. For this purpose, we used the scale RMARS that integrate 25 items. The sample is non-probabilistic by convenience and the questionnaire was applied to 100 student's enrollment in the "Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz"…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, College Students, College Mathematics, Factor Analysis
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Furner, Joseph M. – European Journal of STEM Education, 2017
Mathematics teachers need to take on the role of counselors in addressing the math anxious in today's math classrooms. This paper looks at the impact math anxiety has on the future of young adults in our high-tech society. Teachers and professional school counselors are encouraged to work together to prevent and reduce math anxiety. It is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, School Counselors
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Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Sella, Francesco – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Immordino-Yang and Gotlieb provide an elegant and helpful framework that integrates neuroscientific and education research on social affective development in their article, "Embodied Brains, Social Minds, Cultural Meaning: Integrating Neuroscientific and Educational Research on Social-Affective Development." Based on previous research,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Neurosciences, Cognitive Development, Social Development
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Itter, Diane; Meyers, Noel – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
Preservice teachers graduate from an education system that shapes their mathematical understandings, beliefs and attitudes, and then re-enter that system to shape their own students' mathematical understandings, beliefs, and attitudes. Unfortunately, many of our future teachers have developed negative attitudes symptomatic of a self-perpetuating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Negative Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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