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Effects of School Choice on Math Performance
<p>The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a significant skill level difference between freshmen geometry students who attended charter schools and those who attended noncharter schools during middle school. The study addresses the controversy over charter schools providing better …
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The Relationship Between Mathematical Self-Concept and Math Performance
… selected large school district were surveyed for mathematical self-concept. The instrument used was Gourgey's Mathematical Self-Concept Scale. Mathematical Self-Concept was compared to performance as measured by numerical class grades and by achievement test scores. The results were correlated …
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Math Performance as a Function of Math Anxiety and Arousal Performance Theory
<p>While research continues to link increased math anxiety with reduced working memory, the exact nature of the relationship remains elusive. In addition, research regarding the extent of the impact math anxiety has on working memory is contradictory. This research clarifies the directional nature …
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Afraid To Be A Nerd: Effects of Nerd Stereotypes on Women’s Math Performance
… was to examine whether nerd stigma affects math performance. Specifically, it was hypothesized that women exposed to the nerd stigma would perform worse on a mathematics test than women not exposed to the nerd stigma. The current study also aimed to compare the effects of the nerd stigma on …
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What can School Administrators do to Improve the Math Performance of Black Males?
… focus of this study was on Black male student performance in Algebra 1. Algebra 1 plays a pivotal role in academic success and is a leading indicator of a students likelihood of success in advanced mathematics courses (Wang and Goldschmidt, 2003). Failure to learn and understand the content in …
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Organization strategies to enhance math performance of high school students with attention deficit disorders
… strategies and tools improve overall academic performance for students with attention deficit disorders in a high school resource room math setting? The student participants in this study were taught to use organizational strategies and tools including an assignment completion strategy, a task …
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Stereotype threat and Black women's math performance: Do racial identity and experimenter race matter?
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A Young Child's Anxiety and Math Performance: Enhancing Cognitive Behavioral Intervention with Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
… research examines the impact of anxiety on math performance for young children participating in school-based interventions enhanced by family components. The following research questions were addressed in the study: 1a) Will a young child with elevated levels of anxiety show a decrease in …
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Sex Differences in Math Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Children's Approaches to School
… stereotypically masculine subject areas such as math and science. The central aim of the current research was to examine whether differences in girls and boys' approaches to school underlie the sex difference in their grades. Children's approaches to school (i.e., achievement goal orientation and …
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance
<p>Research demonstrates when math-based gender stereotypes are activated (i.e., men are better at math than women), women display comparatively poorer math performance than men, a phenomenon referred to as stereotype threat. The current thesis project evaluated two self-affirmation interventions …
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Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Norm-Referenced and Everyday Math Performance in Community College Students
… and non-cognitive factors are known to predict math outcomes, including language, working memory, spatial ability, math anxiety, and self-efficacy. While many studies have looked at these factors separately, few have examined how such skills work together to predict math. Additionally, most …
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Cracking the Stereotype Threat Equation: Associations with Executive Functions and the Math Performance of Latine College Students
… their ethnic group, has on Latine students' mathematical performance, a phenomenon known as stereotype threat (ST). Much of the ST research to date, highlights the effects of gender stereotypes on students' (particularly women's) performance on academic tasks completed mainly in untimed …
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A qualitative single case study exploring teachers' anti-deficit approaches and perspectives in addressing Black middle school students' math performance.
… affect Black students' academic achievement in math. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (2023) states that Black students rank the lowest in math standardized assessments. Since 1990, Black students' math assessment scores have not met basic expectations in national, state, and …
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A comparative study of the relative effectiveness of computer assisted instruction, cooperative learning and teacher directed instruction on improving math performance of low achieving students
… their relative effectiveness in improving math performance of low achieving students. Additional information was collected on student time on task behavior to determine the relative impact of these treatments on this variable. An experimental research design was used. Ninety-nine rising …
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THE IMPACT OF MATERNAL PARENTING STYLES ON GOAL ORIENTATIONS, SELF-EFFICACY, AND USE OF METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES FOR MATHEMATICS AMONG HISPANIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
… & Hammes, 2011). The extant literature on the math achievement of Hispanic students has attempted to explain the factors responsible for this underachievement including the influence parents have on the academic achievement of their children. The purpose of this study was to examine how three …
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MuSciQ- A Musical Curriculum for Math
Music and math are related in that 1) they both rely on the basic understanding of numbers, proportions, intervals, measurements, and operations and 2) both require levels of abstract thinking and symbolic notation. Studies link music and math by examining, for example, how music may play a role in …
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The Short-Term Effects of Student Absences on Student Math Growth and the Moderator Effects of Student Achievement Levels
… effects of student absences on student math growth and the moderator effects of student achievement levels on fourth and fifth grade students at a high-performing elementary school in central Massachusetts. Through independent-samples t-tests and moderation analysis, the study assessed …
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