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"I Can Math!": Reducing Math Anxiety and Increasing Math Self-Efficacy Using a Mindfulness and Growth Mindset-Based Intervention in First-Year Students.
Tashana S. Samuel,Jared Warner +1 more
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This paper found that negative rumination when anticipating math situations substantially increased the likelihood that students will experience math anxiety, which is a debilitating problem that affects many community college students in the US.Abstract:
Math anxiety is a debilitating problem that affects many community college students. Neuropsychological research suggests that negative rumination when anticipating math situations substantially ex...read more
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How mathematics anxiety affects students' inflexible perseverance in mathematics problem-solving: Examining the mediating role of cognitive reflection
Ronghuan Jiang,Ru-De Liu,Jon R. Star,Rui Zhen,Jia Wang,Wei Hong,Shuyang Jiang,Yan Sun,Xinchen Fu +8 more
TL;DR: Mathematics anxiety was showed to impair students' ability to engage in deliberate reasoning and was associated with inflexible use of strategies.
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Effect of Intelligence Mindsets on Math Achievement for Chinese Primary School Students: Math Self-Efficacy and Failure Beliefs as Mediators.
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship of intelligence mindsets to math achievement for primary school students in the Chinese educational context, as well as the mediating function of math self-efficacy and failure beliefs in this relationship.
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Self-compassion mindsets can predict statistics course performance via intelligence mindsets and statistics anxiety
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether adopting a self-compassion growth mindset was an antecedent to an intelligence growth mindset, reduced statistics anxiety, and ultimately, lead to better grades.
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Do games reduce maths anxiety? A meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors meta-analyse the empirical evidence about the effectiveness of game-based interventions to reduce students' level of math anxiety, and find that non-digital games were more effective, while digital games had a negligible mean effect size of $ES=-0.13$, $CI=[-0.33,0.08]$.
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Identifying False Growth Mindsets in Adults and Implications for Mathematics Motivation
TL;DR: This paper found that holding an inconsistent set of beliefs, like a false growth mindset might contribute to the disconnect between mindset theory and practice and that consistent responses across a variety of growth mindset measures may prove to be the most adaptive.
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A Threat in the Air How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
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Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Context: Past, Present, and Future
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