| The primary purpose of the study was to compare academic achievement in mathematics with math anxiety, math self-efficacy, and other constructs that have been related to math learning and performance such as, gender, number of years of high school mathematics, traditional versus nontraditional status, employment status, high school grade point average, and major. Math anxiety, as measured by the Math Anxiety Rating Scale Revised (MARS), and math self-efficacy, as measure by the Math Self-efficacy Scale (MSES), was used to predict math achievement of student participants from Ohio University-Eastern and Ohio University-Zanesville. The results suggested that math self-efficacy subscales are the best predictor variables. As predicted, females reported higher levels of math anxiety and males reported higher levels of math self-efficacy; however, under confident females posted a higher average in math achievement than overconfident males. In addition, employed males performed significantly better than employed females.;For future study, it is recommended that this research be replicated at other open admission commuter institutions to determine if the results of the study were influenced by factors in the school or in the geographical area. |
