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February 7, 2024Education SciencesOpen Access

Mathematical Anxiety among Primary Education Degree Students in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Case Study

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MCM. T. CostadoJCJosé Carlos Piñero Charlo

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Overview

Cross-sectional study reveals elevated mathematical anxiety in pre-service primary educators, highlighting heightened vulnerability among female students and humanities graduates.

Key Points

  • Evaluate mathematical anxiety among pre-service primary education university students and identify associations with demographic characteristics, academic background, and performance in the post-pandemic period.
  • Administered a mathematical anxiety questionnaire to 119 undergraduate students enrolled in a Primary Education degree.
  • Evaluated variations in anxiety scores relative to age, gender, upper-secondary educational background, and academic performance.
  • Average overall mathematical anxiety scored 3.08 (surpassing the neutral score of 3.0), driven primarily by elevated examination anxiety (mean: 3.68) and moderate problem-solving anxiety.
  • Higher mathematical anxiety correlated negatively with academic performance and was significantly higher among female students, 19-year-olds, and students with humanities backgrounds.
  • All measured dimensions of mathematical anxiety exceeded recorded pre-pandemic levels.

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Costado et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1bc6ce00ee29383e9ce0bbhttps://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020171
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