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Study: Female teachers' math anxiety affects girl students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.chicagotribune.com (Views: 85, Clicks: 0) View Story

Women teachers' anxiety about math may undermine girls' confidence in learning the subject and decrease their performance in fields that depend on a grasp of math fundamentals, such as science and engineering, research at the University of Chicago shows.

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#1 by nitajo posted ago

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At the beginning of the year, the students' achievement was unrelated to their teachers' level of math anxiety. By the end of the year, however, the more anxious their female teachers were about math, the more likely girls--but not boys--were to endorse the view that boys are better at math. Girls who bought into the stereotype scored six points lower in math achievement than other students.

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