Assessing attitudes and anxiety toward mathematics – Mathematics Attitudes and Anxiety Questionnaire (MAAQ) now available!

6th November 2019

The Clinical Outcomes team at Oxford University Innovation are very pleased to announce the launch of a standardised instrument used to detect math anxiety as early as possible and help monitor the condition at regular intervals.

A substantial number of children and adults have mathematics anxiety, which may severely disrupt their mathematical learning and performance, both by causing avoidance of mathematical activities and by overloading and disrupting working memory during mathematical tasks. Maths anxiety is a relatively frequent phenomenon and often related to dyscalculia.

Dr Ann Dowker, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford; Karina Bennett & Louise Smith, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, have developed a standardised instrument to complete assessment of attitudes and anxiety related to the individual (respondents) view of mathematics; the Mathematics Attitudes and Anxiety Questionnaire (MAAQ).

The MAAQ uses age-appropriate, simple to understand, pictorial rating scales to capture the student / child’s personal views. The MAAQ is an Interviewer administered questionnaire and responses are captured during an interview by a teacher, teaching assistant, SEN team member, parent or carer who records the responses.  The MAAQ consists of 28 questions, focused on 7 domains of measuring the respondents view of mathematics:

1.       maths in general

2.       written sums

3.       mental sums

4.       easy maths

5.       difficult maths

6.       maths tests and

7.       understanding the teacher

Find out more about the measure here!

 

The MAAQ is now available from the Clinical Outcomes team at Oxford University Innovation.

For more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via healthoutcomes@innovation.ox.ac.uk.

 

 

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