Mathematical Anxiety and mathematical learning: Multidimensional approach.

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Bogdanova, O.; Ginku, E.; Bogdanova, E.; Zueva, D.; Malanchini, M. and Kovas, Yulia. 2014. Mathematical Anxiety and mathematical learning: Multidimensional approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 60(s), p. 9. ISSN 0191-8869 [Article]

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Research suggests that mathematical anxiety is a complex phenomenon related to mathematical achievement, developmental dyscalculia, strategies of numerical information processing, and negative emotional states. The goal of this currently on-going large-scale study is to implement a mixed method approach towards assessment of mathematical anxiety across the school grades. The methods include: a picture-based assessment; a questionnaire measuring attitudes towards mathematics; and a computerized test-battery measuring mathematics related cognitive processes. This mixed method approach addresses mathematical anxiety as a multidimensional, multi-faceted and dynamic manifestation of individual differences in a specific educational context. The research also allows exploring interrelations between non-cognitive and cognitive processes involved in mathematical anxiety. Here we present the results of the first wave of the investigation, involving data from 3 different age groups, assessed in several schools in Russia and the UK. The results suggest the importance of accounting for educational contexts in measuring and treating mathematical anxiety.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.178