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Article: Effects of math anxiety and perfectionism on timed versus untimed math testing in mathematically gifted sixth graders.(Mathematics and Perfectionism)
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Most school-based performance measures are administered with a time limit (Dreyden & Gallagher, 1989). Timed math performance is often worse than untimed math performance (Kellogg, Hopko, & Ashcraft, 1999), even among gifted students (Dreyden & Gallagher). This may be because of insufficient time to complete all test problems or because the timed testing is sufficiently anxiety-provoking to hinder performance. It is important to assess the possible effects of math anxiety on performance, because high math anxiety may lead students to avoid math (Hembree, 1990) by choosing not to enroll in advanced (Ashcraft, 2002) or elective math courses (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001). Math ...