VIC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mindset, Achievement Orientation
17 Apr 2016
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For some, simply walking into a math class can evoke anxiety. A meta-analysis of the relationship between anxiety towards mathematics and achievement in mathematics. Children"s main anxiety questionnaire (cmaq: used to measure anxiety, relatively simple questions possibly anxiety provoking situations. Influence of teacher"s math anxiety can be specific. 2d mental rotation task: decide if you rotate 2 given shapes which shape it will make. Teacher"s spatial anxiety predicted their student"s spatial skill at the end of the year, even after taking student spatial skill at the beginning of the year, phonological working memory, grade level and teacher math anxiety account. Researchers speculate that teachers high on spatial anxiety may avoid spatial activities in the classroom: because they are anxious about it themselves, children are experiencing missed opportunity. Student"s miss out on opportunities to develop spatial skill, crucial to many areas of math and science learning.
