- Title
- Socio-economic status and gender-based analysis of the effect of mathematics anxiety on mathematics performance among secondary students
- Creator
- Alzahrani, Ali R. R.; Stojanovski, Elizabeth
- Relation
- IASE 2019 Satellite Conference. Proceedings of the IASE 2019 Satellite Conference (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 13-16 August, 2019) p. 1-6
- Publisher
- International Association for Statistical Education
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- This paper employs data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 study on mathematics performance in Australian secondary schools to determine the effect of mathematics anxiety on mathematics performance among secondary students. Data of school and student specific factors that are relevant to the Australian educational context are extracted from the PISA 2012 study. These data are used to measure the influence of these factors, as well as mathematics anxiety, on students' mathematics performance. Potential predictive factors are also used in the assessment including gender, socio-economic status (SES) and mathematics anxiety. Findings support the existence of an inverse relationship between mathematics performance and mathematics anxiety whereby the influence of mathematics anxiety varies based on students’ gender and SES.
- Subject
- mathematics; anxiety; students; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452372
- Identifier
- uon:44416
- Language
- eng
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