Role
Chief Investigator
Description
Concerns have been raised across the university regarding a substantial number of first-year students experiencing mathematics anxiety, low engagement with the subject, and negative feelings toward mathematics. To address these concerns, scholars have introduced a new construct called Mathematical Wellbeing (MWB), which is conceptualised as students’ propensities to feel good and function well in mathematics. Enhancing MWB and fulfilling first-year students’ positive feelings, dispositions and functioning in mathematics is essential. Studies that have investigated predictors of learners’ mathematics performance have focused mostly on cognitive skills and knowledge attainment. Despite the success of this line of work in explaining a sizeable amount of variance in mathematics performance (50–60%), a significant amount of variance remains unexplained (Caia et al., 2018). Explaining this significant amount of variance would require work that address other areas like MWB. There is evidence that learners’ affective and conative domains, and social skills can be cultivated and supported in learning and teaching practices (OECD, 2015; Clarkson et al., 2010). This project seeks to (1) investigate challenges to positive MWB, (2) develop and evaluate an instrument that supports students’ positive MWB, and (3) develop and evaluate support strategies for positive MWB.
Date
06 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
Project Type
N/A
Keywords
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Funding Body
JCU Australia
Amount
10000
Project Team
N/A