The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, Vanda
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Pereira, Anabela, Neto, Teresa, Pinheiro, Margarida M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/34648
Resumo: The area of Mathematics, often seen as difficult and stressful, is one of the scientific areas with the highest failure rates in Higher Education, thus leading to different levels of anxiety. The purpose of the Math Anxiety project is to understand how mathematical anxiety and negative attitudes toward mathematics affect students’ performance. The research made use of internationally validated protocols (sMars and STAI) that were applied to Higher Education students from different institutions in Portugal. The findings of this study show that mathematical anxiety and negative attitudes toward mathematics do not always affect the performance of students. By providing an instrument for measuring math anxiety and identifying students that may have a low math achievement because of anxiety, the present study provides relevant insights regarding mathematical anxiety that may be useful for educators and psychologists.
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title The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
spellingShingle The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
Santos, Vanda
Anxiety
Higher education
Mathematics
title_short The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
title_full The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
title_fullStr The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
title_full_unstemmed The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
title_sort The math anxiety project at higher education: a case study from Portugal
author Santos, Vanda
author_facet Santos, Vanda
Pereira, Anabela
Neto, Teresa
Pinheiro, Margarida M.
author_role author
author2 Pereira, Anabela
Neto, Teresa
Pinheiro, Margarida M.
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, Vanda
Pereira, Anabela
Neto, Teresa
Pinheiro, Margarida M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Anxiety
Higher education
Mathematics
topic Anxiety
Higher education
Mathematics
description The area of Mathematics, often seen as difficult and stressful, is one of the scientific areas with the highest failure rates in Higher Education, thus leading to different levels of anxiety. The purpose of the Math Anxiety project is to understand how mathematical anxiety and negative attitudes toward mathematics affect students’ performance. The research made use of internationally validated protocols (sMars and STAI) that were applied to Higher Education students from different institutions in Portugal. The findings of this study show that mathematical anxiety and negative attitudes toward mathematics do not always affect the performance of students. By providing an instrument for measuring math anxiety and identifying students that may have a low math achievement because of anxiety, the present study provides relevant insights regarding mathematical anxiety that may be useful for educators and psychologists.
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