Statistics and Data Science Seminar
Hongmei Liu and Nordia Thomas
UIC
Investigation on math anxiety among high school students
Abstract: The objective of our project was to evaluate the prevalence of
math anxiety for two periods (A and B) of Algebra I students, and to
identify if alternative pedagogical strategies help to alleviate math
anxiety. From an initial Math Anxiety Scale (MAS) survey we concluded
that students did exhibit math anxiety, with most displaying medium to
medium-high levels of math anxiety. We conducted a logistic regression of
the difference of scores between the Math Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS)
survey given before and after a class, and the students' initial math
anxiety rating. Using the results of the logistic regression we concluded
that the hands-on teaching approach used in Period A helped to alleviate
the students' math anxiety more than the traditional lecture approach
employed in Period B.
Wednesday May 2, 2007 at 3:15 PM in SEO 712