Schoolbook Texts: Behavioral Achievement Priming in Math and Language

achievement in foreign language learning contex the impacts of teachers self-disclosure on students anxiety, attitude and achievement in fireign language learning context

this study was designed to investigate the impacts of teachers self-disclosure on students foreign language classroom anxiety, attitude to english language learning and their achievement scores at the end of the term. there were 48 female learners of intermediate level. they were not randomly selected. there were one experimental group with 21 students and one control group with 27 students.the...

Mindsets and Math/Science Achievement

Positive, Math-unrelated Priming and Women's Math Performance

Stereotype threat occurs when negative stereotypes about group performance on a particular task are made salient, thereby negatively affecting group member performance. Specifically, research has demonstrated that stereotype-threatened women underperform on tests of mathematical ability (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). A possibility for reducing stereotype threat in women was explored by havin...

Female Teachers’ Math Anxiety Impacts 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 their female students. Early elementary school teachers in the U.S. are almost exclusively female (> 90%...

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 their female students. Early elementary school teachers in the United States are almost exclusively female...