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Learning Skills Publications, LLC. Test to measure test anxiety.

By Shelia Tobias, New York: College Entrance Examination Board: Distributed to the trade by the MacMillan Pub. Co, 1987

By Cynthia A. Arem, Pacific Grove, Calif: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1993

This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.

Posted by Shannon Sweetser to Socrato Learning Analytics Blog, April 1 2011. A collection of "jaw dropping" examples of infographics, all of which apply to Education. See especially #9: US Education vs. The World: Education Spending (and performance) and #10 - 10 Shocking U.S. Education Statistics, which includes stats on high school dropouts, math anxiety, and how education impacts earning potential. Unfortunately, the graphics are not well cited (sources are not clearly indicated).

Patrick Bahls in The WAC Journal, Vol 20, Nov 2009. Bahls, a professor at UNC-Asheville, writes of the success he's had with a poetry assignment for his pre-calc and calculus students. He cites that much of one's success with math (especially advanced math) comes from confidence and finds the "language" of math to be both cumbersome and outdated for most students. The examples of student poetry (and their reactions to the assignment) are also provided as evidence.

This is a really interesting article, and the poetry is both thoughtful and creative. I wonder what both math and writing faculty think of this idea. Has anyone tried something similar in their classrooms? Great cites (and nice poem) on math anxiety. -- Stephanie

By Sheila Tobias, published by Paw Prints, 2008. Originally published in 1978.