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 Brandon DeJesus                Home        Learn More        Standards        Inspiration        About the Author



 Is the flipped classroom helping students with math anxiety?


Measuring Math Anxiety 

To establish the level of math anxiety present in my students I used a modified version of the MARS (Mathematical Anxiety Rating Scale), a tool that has been used in research and clinical studies since 1972 when it was created by Richardson and Suinn (Ashcroft, 2009).

​I conducted 3 rounds of data collection, collecting 3 anxiety scores for each student: the initial anxiety score, the score at the end of the first semester and the score at the end of the year. 


After inputting each individual students score I averaged them and used that as an indication of the overall level of math anxiety present in each period. 
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A larger version of the anxiety scale can be found in my research paper
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Above, we see that each class experienced a decrease in overall feelings of math anxiety between the initial data collection and round 2. We can also observe that all-but-one class experienced another decrease in average math anxiety between data collection round 2 and 3. 

Student feedback and qualitative results

At the end of the year I gave an optional survey to students to evaluate the effectiveness of my attempts at innovation and in-particular the use of teacher created tutorials outside of class. Below are the results of some of the most pertinent questions on the optional survey. 
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X axis: 1 - Much worse than last year, 5- Much better than last year
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