Students' content-area anxiety is stable across the year, with within- and cross-content-area positive correlations¶
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q3 i? Students' anxiety for each content area was significantly and positively related to their anxiety in the same and other content areas across the fall and winter time points (e.g., T1–T2 mathematics anxiety r = .64). → McLean 2023
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McLean 2023¶
McLean, L., Janssen, J., Espinoza, P., Lindstrom Johnson, S., & Jimenez, M. (2023). Associations Between Teacher and Student Mathematics, Science, and Literacy Anxiety in Fourth Grade. Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000790
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Preliminary bivariate correlation analysis (Table 2) of student anxiety measures. The strongest printed stability correlation is T1–T2 mathematics anxiety r = .64 (p < .01), which exceeds the |r| ≥ .37 threshold for a large correlation; ELA stability r = .41 and science stability r = .41.
"Students’ anxiety for content areas were consistently signi ficantly related both within and across time points in the expected directions."
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Related Claims¶
- Teachers' beginning-of-year anxiety for teaching mathematics, science, or ELA shows no direct significant association with students' end-of-year anxiety in that content area — related
- Math achievement and math anxiety show reciprocal longitudinal relationships in primary school children: achievement at T1 predicts anxiety at T2 and anxiety at T1 predicts achievement at T2 — related
- Teachers' years of experience correlate negatively with their mathematics and ELA anxiety but show no association with science anxiety — related
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Students' content-area anxiety is stable across the year, with within- and cross-content-area positive correlations |
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Students' content-area anxiety is stable across the year, with within- and cross-content-area positive correlations |
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