Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1860-1863

  Beilock, Sian L ^a   Gunderson, Elizabeth A ^a   Ramirez, Gerardo ^a   Levine, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gender; Mathematics; Modeling; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHER;

ANXIETY; CHILD; FACULTY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76649088364     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910967107     Document Type: Article

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