Sian Beilock

The goal of this project was to explore how young students' mathematics anxiety and attitudes relate to their mathematics achievement, as well as the cognitive factors that mediate identified anxiety-achievement relations. In addition, the researchers explored the relation between teachers' math anxiety and students' math achievement. Individuals who have negative attitudes about mathematics are often high in mathematics anxiety. Math anxious individuals also tend to have poor math knowledge...

In this project, the researchers proposed to first examine how stereotype threat affects women's performance in math testing situations and then develop and pilot test new assessment tools that aim to reduce the negative effects of stereotype threat. Stereotype threat arises when members of a marginalized group feel there is a negative stereotype about them and perform worse or demonstrate apprehension in circumstances when the stereotype is salient. For example, there is a stereotype that w...