Identifying maths anxiety in student nurses and focusing remedial work

Flipped Classroom Versus Traditional Textbook Instruction: Assessing Accuracy and Mental Effort at Different Levels of Mathematical Complexity

“…Furthermore, Costello determined significant main effects using Bonferroni post hoc tests, as the same in this study. Despite similarities with regard to population sample and size, other studies that explored math with undergraduate nursing students noted small sizes, but the purposes and variables differed; thus the analysis procedures from those studies are not accurate for this study (Bull 2009;Hodge 2002;Melius 2012;Walsh 2008). Table 4 reports that there was a significant effect of treatment on accuracy at the p \ 0.05 level for the conditions (F(1, 2) = 0.15, p = 0.01).…”

“…The field of nursing is one such area that encompasses all three aspects of what this study intended. Even though the strength of the results could potentially be weakened by the small sample size, such numbers are common (Bull 2009;Costello 2010;Hodge 2002;Melius 2012;Walsh 2008). Moreover, choosing nonparametric t tests would have been an option for statistical analysis, but because the intention of this study was closely aligned to that of Costello's (2010) study in terms of variables and design of the study, ANOVA analysis was determined.…”

“…Content specialized professors instructed this sample of participants. Small sample sizes of second year nursing students are common with a majority being female (Bull 2009;Costello 2010;Hodge 2002;Melius 2012;Walsh 2008): 63, 70, 40, 51, and 71, respectively. These participants were purposely recruited because nursing students are required to demonstrate understanding of algebra concepts on exit exams and in the workforce.…”

Predictors of numeracy performance in undergraduate psychology, nursing and medical students

“…e.g. Bull, 2009;Núñez-Peña, Suárez-Pellicioni & Bono, 2013) but no research has investigated the effect of anxiety or motivation on medical students.…”

Math anxiety: the impact on traditionally underserved and marginalized adult female undergraduate students in elementary statistics

“…This condition "is frequently linked to poor achievement in mathematics" (Finlayson, 2014, p. 99) caused by frustration, confusion, lack of persistence, and "shutting down" (Finlayson, 2014, p. 105). Students who suffer from math anxiety can experience embarrassment due to public exposure of math errors in a group setting (Bull, 2009), erosion of self-confidence and self-efficacy based on poor test results, and in many cases, a final outcome of failure (Nunez-Pena et al, 2013). As a result, these students are also more likely to avoid other elective math related course work, to extend time to degree completion, or to totally bypass or not even consider employment in the lucrative and highly available STEM careers (Ortiz & Sriraman, 2015).…”