Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

The Society of Digital Policy and Management (한국디지털정책학회)
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Effect of teaching on reducing mathematics anxiety in university statistics class

대학 통계 수업에서 가르치기가 수학 불안 감소에 미치는 영향

  • 이영림 (단국대학교 심리치료학과)
  • Received : 2021.01.26
  • Accepted : 2021.03.20
  • Published : 2021.03.28
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Abstract

The benefits of teaching learning materials to others have been shown on learning achievement. Anxiety is one of the obstacles in learning and it has been shown that math anxiety is strongly associated with math achievement. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether teaching others benefits math anxiety when university students learn statistics. 59 students who enrolled in statistics class participated and 30 students performed group assignment of teaching peer in a group and 29 students did not. Other than group assignments, the instructor, lectures, assignment of solving the problems, and exams were all the same. The results showed that the math anxiety of students who did group assignments of teaching was decreased at the end the semester. Increased math anxiety yielded negative attitudes toward learning statistics, resulting in poor learning performance. Furthermore, the relationship between math anxiety and the attitudes toward leaning statistics was moderated by teaching others. The results suggest that teaching others has an effect on reducing math anxiety and thus, possibly yield persistent learning gains.

다른 사람에게 학습 자료를 가르치는 것의 이점은 학업 성취도에서 나타났다. 불안은 학습을 방해하는 요인 중 하나이고 수학 불안은 수학 성취도와 밀접한 관련이 있음이 밝혀졌다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 대학생들이 통계를 학습할 때 다른 사람을 가르치는 것이 수학 불안에 도움을 주는지 알아보는 것이다. 통계수업에 등록한 학생들 59명이 참여했고 30명의 학생은 그룹 안에서 다른 학생을 가르치는 그룹 과제를 수행했고, 29명의 학생은 수행하지 않았다. 그룹 과제를 제외하고 강사, 강의, 문제 풀이 과제와 시험은 모두 동일했다. 그 결과, 가르치는 그룹 과제를 수행한 학생들의 수학 불안은 학기 말에 감소하였다. 수학 불안이 증가하면 통계 학습에 대한 태도가 부정적으로 나타나고 그 결과 학습 성취도가 저하되었다. 또한, 수학 불안과 통계 학습에 대한 태도의 관계는 다른 사람을 가르치는 것으로 조절되었다. 이러한 결과는 가르치기는 수학 불안을 감소시키는 데 영향을 미쳐 지속적인 학습 이득을 얻을 수 있음을 시사한다.

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