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ERIC Number: EJ404454
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0092-055X
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What's Funny about Statistics? A Technique for Reducing Student Anxiety.
Schacht, Steven; Stewart, Brad J.
Teaching Sociology, v18 n1 p52-56 Jan 1990
Studied the use of humorous cartoons to reduce the anxiety levels of students in statistics classes. Used the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) to measure the level of student anxiety before and after a statistics course. Found that there was a significant reduction in levels of mathematics anxiety after the course. (SLM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cartoons, Educational Research, Higher Education, Humor, Mathematics Anxiety, Pretests Posttests, Sociology, Statistics, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale
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