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Using peer mentoring to reduce mathematical anxiety
- Source :
- Research Papers in Education. 32:481-500
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Research has shown mathematical anxiety impacts on mathematical confidence and attainment, leading to avoidance of mathematics and mathematical careers. This research investigated if an intervention with peer mentors could help reduce students’ mathematical anxiety. It took place at a Secondary School (11–18 years) in the South West of England, which has been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted. Five female students (aged 11–15 years) identified by their teachers as mathematically anxious were paired with peer mentors (female, aged 16–17 years) to receive four one-hour intervention sessions over six weeks. The purpose was for the mentors to provide encouragement and demonstrate skills to cope with being ‘stuck’, thus building the students’ mathematical resilience and reducing their mathematical anxiety. The students’ mathematical anxiety and attitudes were measured with a questionnaire before the intervention and again after all four sessions. The qualitative data collected from the questionnaires wa...
- Subjects :
- Semi-structured interview
Medical education
Coping (psychology)
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education
05 social sciences
Self-esteem
Qualitative property
050105 experimental psychology
Mathematical anxiety
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Peer mentoring
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychological resilience
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Qualitative research
Clinical psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14701146 and 02671522
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research Papers in Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e4f21cc775fd365a233687167de5c14f