Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement

People's fear and anxiety about doing math--over and above actual math ability--can be an impediment to their math achievement. We show that when the math-anxious individuals are female elementary school teachers, their math anxiety carries negative consequences for the math achievement of thei...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2010-02, Vol.107 (5), p.1860-1863
Main Authors: Beilock, Sian L, Gunderson, Elizabeth A, Ramirez, Gerardo, Levine, Susan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Anxiety
boys
Child
Elementary school mathematics
Elementary school teachers
Faculty
Fear
fearfulness
Female
Females
girls
Humans
Male
Mathematical knowledge
Mathematical relations
Mathematics
Mathematics - education
Mathematics achievement
Mathematics anxiety
Mathematics teachers
reading
School year
Self-Assessment
Sex Characteristics
Social Sciences
students
Students - psychology
teachers
United States
Womens studies
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