The interdisciplinary dance program significantly reduces cognitive anxiety in 8th-grade students¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The experimental group significantly reduced cognitive anxiety after the intervention while the control group remained stable. → Filippou 2018

Evidence¶

Filippou 2018¶

Filippou, F., Rokka, S., Pitsi, A., Gargalianos, D., Bebetsos, E., & Filippou, D. A. (2018). Interdisciplinary Greek Traditional Dance Course: Impact on Student Satisfaction and Anxiety. International Journal of Instruction, 11(3), 363-374. https://doi.org/10.12973/iji.2018.11325a

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Repeated measures ANOVA on the cognitive anxiety subscale of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2; the experimental group's mean fell from 4.28 to 1.74 while the control group stayed at 4.27. The article reports a "statistically important interaction" with F(1,258)=1706.31, p<.001.

"The results showed that there was a statistically important interaction between the factors “measurement” and “group” for “cognitive anxiety” [F (1,258) =1706.31, p<.001]."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• The interdisciplinary dance program's effects on satisfaction and anxiety hold for both boys and girls — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• An interdisciplinary Greek traditional dance program significantly increases 8th-grade students' satisfaction compared with typical curriculum dance lessons — related
• The interdisciplinary dance program significantly reduces somatic anxiety in 8th-grade students — related
• The interdisciplinary dance program significantly increases students' self-confidence — related
• Student satisfaction correlates positively with self-confidence and negatively with somatic and cognitive anxiety — related