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The Effect Of Expressive Writing On Second-Grade Math Achievement And Math Anxiety, Hope Walter
The Effect Of Expressive Writing On Second-Grade Math Achievement And Math Anxiety, Hope Walter
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Eighty second-grade students participated in a five day study to assess the potential benefits of utilizing expressive writing as a tool to reduce math anxiety and increase math achievement in highly math-anxious (HMA), primary-age children. This quasi-experimental design used a three-way mixed ANOVA to assess if students with high math anxiety, as measured on the MASYC-R survey, would show decreased levels of math anxiety after expressively writing about mathematical concerns for one week, compared to their peers who wrote expressively about a topic of choice.
At posttest, many students did show an increase in math achievement and a decrease in …