Female Teachers Anxious that Maths Can Pass the Same Attitude to the Girl Students
January 30, 2010 |13:37 | By : Team X
Girls have long been tagged with a stereotype that they're not supposed to be good at math. A new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science claims female teachers who show anxiousness in math can share that attitude with female students.
The study involved first- and second-graders having teachers anxious for mathematics were more likely to believe that boys are hard-wired for math and that girls are better at reading, a new study has revealed. At the beginning of the school year, researchers learned boys' and girls' math score didn't link on the attitude of their teacher. The outcome cited that boys reported unaffected results, but girls, who began to believe boys are naturally better at math, fetched lower grades.
The study is the first of its kind to analyze the math attitudes of teachers and to show that those feelings can travel to students and adversely affect their performance, said co-author Susan C. Levine, also a psychologist at the University of Chicago.
The recent figures men continue to run the engineering and IT jobs, and researchers cite that it's harmful to research to "dismiss 50%" of researchers because they are women.
The National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education reports above 90% of all elementary school teachers in the U. S. as women, an inappropriate level of mathematics study is required to fetch a teaching certificate, which is something that may be pondered over in the future.
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