Correlation Between Teaching Readiness with Math Anxiety of Primary Pre-Service Teacher

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out: 1) Readiness to teach mathematics of primary pre-service teacher in semester 6 of the academic year 2017/2018, 2) level of math anxiety of primary pre-service teacher in semester 6 of the academic year 2017/2018, and 3) is there a relationship between student teaching readiness towards math anxiety?. This research is correlation research. The population of this study was 6th-semester students at the primary preservice teacher of Ahmad Dahlan University. The population of this study was 300 students with a sample of 169 students. The determination of the number of samples refers to the krejcie table. The sample is taken by simple random sampling technique. Data collection was done using the math anxiety questionnaire and the microteaching assessment sheet. Data were analyzed by the Spearman Correlation test. The results of this study indicate that: 1) Readiness to teach mathematics of primary pre-service teacher is at a low level, 2) level of math anxiety of primary pre-service teacher is at a high level, and 3) There a negative relationship between the level of math anxiety and the level of mathematics teaching readiness of primary pre-service teacher with a value of r =-0,677.

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