Attitudes to Mathematics in Primary School Children
By A. Dowker, K. Bennett, Louis M. Smith. 2012
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44 Grade 3 children and 45 Grade 5 children from English primary schools were given the British abilities scales basic number skills subtest, and a Mathematics Attitude and Anxiety Questionnaire, using pictorial rating scales to record their Self-rating for maths, Liking for maths, Anxiety about maths, and Unhappiness about poor performance in mathematics. There were few year group differences in attitudes. Boys rated themselves higher than girls, but did not differ significantly in actual performance. Overall, Anxiety was not related to actual performance, but Self-rating was. This relationship between Self-rating and actual performance seemed to develop between Grade 3 and Grade 5. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistics and Probability
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Citations in the corpus
- Mathematics Anxiety: What Have We Learned in 60 Years? (2016, methodology): “…mainly including pictorial rating scales, have since been developed for use with primary school children; e.g., the Mathematics Attitude and Anxiety Questionnaire (Thomas and Dowker, 2000; Krinzinger et al., 2007; Dowker et al., 2012) and the Children’s Attitude to Math Scale (James, 2013).”
- Math Anxiety: Past Research, Promising Interventions, and a New Interpretation Framework (2018, background): “Math anxiety studies examining children in Grades 4–6 (Suinn, Taylor, & Edwards, 1988), Grades 4 and 5 (Y€uksel-Şahin, 2008), Grades 3 and 5 (Dowker et al., 2012), and Grades 1–3 (Ganley & McGraw, 2016; Wu et al., 2012; Young et al., 2012) report no differences in that math anxiety across these…”