TY - JOUR
T1 - Math anxiety
T2 - A comparison of social work and non-social work students
AU - Royse, David
AU - Lewis Rompf, Elizabeth
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Social work students often complain and grumble about having to take courses in research methods and statistics. Do their complaints originate from deep-seated math anxiety? The current study investigated the math anxiety and math backgrounds of 163 undergraduate social work students and 256 non—social work majors. Social work majors were found to have much higher levels of math anxiety than a cross section of students enrolled in introductory statistics courses and found to have taken fewer math courses in high school and college.
AB - Social work students often complain and grumble about having to take courses in research methods and statistics. Do their complaints originate from deep-seated math anxiety? The current study investigated the math anxiety and math backgrounds of 163 undergraduate social work students and 256 non—social work majors. Social work majors were found to have much higher levels of math anxiety than a cross section of students enrolled in introductory statistics courses and found to have taken fewer math courses in high school and college.
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U2 - 10.1080/10437797.1992.10778780
DO - 10.1080/10437797.1992.10778780
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21144478750
SN - 1043-7797
VL - 28
SP - 270
EP - 277
JO - Journal of Social Work Education
JF - Journal of Social Work Education
IS - 3
ER -