Name: Mathematics achievement and fear of success
Creator: Gilah C. Leder
Keywords: 4. Education, 05 social sciences, 10. No inequality, 0503 education

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article 01 Mar 1982Publisher:BrillJournal:Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, volume 13, page 124 (issn: 0021-8251,

Authors: Gilah C. Leder;

doi: 10.1163/9789087901509_012 , 10.2307/748359 , 10.5951/jresematheduc.13.2.0124

Mathematics achievement and fear of success

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The purpose of the study was to examine whether the fear or success (FS) construct, which grew out of attempts to understand the conflicting sex-related findings in achievement motivation, was helpful in explaining observed sex differences in mathematics achievement and course participation. The sample comprised 258 boys and 233 girls in Grades 7, 10, and 11. Changes in FS with age were found to be more complex for the girls than for the boys. High fear of success was found to be more characteristic of students considering a course less traditional for their sex.

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