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Resource Title: Female Teachers' Math Anxiety Affects Girls' Math Achievement
Description/Annotation: Psychologists at the University of Chicago report that math anxiety of elementary school teachers (who are predominantly female) has a negative impact on math achievement in their female students (but not their male students). This report published in PNAS was picked up in the popular media.
Author Last Name: Beilock
Author First Name: Sian
Additional Author: Gunderson
: Elizabeth
Additional Author: Ramirez
: Gerardo
Additional Author: Levine
: Susan
Publisher: PNAS
Publisher Location: Washington DC
Publication Date: 2010, January 25
Page Numbers: 1-4
Link Type: Abstract, Full text
Keywords:
  • cohort.k.12
  • discipline.mathematics
  • geography.north.america
  • keyword.education.training
  • keyword.root.cause
  • keyword.stereotypes
  • orgn.type.educational.institution
  • policy.educational
  • practice.teaching.learning
  • research.reports.classroom.learning
  • research.reports.gender.bias
  • research.reports.gender.differences
  • research.reports.teaching
  • resource.type.article.report
  • topic.research.reports