Komunikazioko graduko euskal ikasleen matematika-antsietatea neurtzeko RMARS galdetegiaren euskarazko bertsioaren garapena

Abstract

Our ability to grasp an increasingly complex datafied society is affected by limiting factors such as mathematics anxiety. Playing a central mediating role in transmitting increasingly datafied information (Kovach eta Rosenstiel, 2014), journalists are an interesting object of research, specially given the notion that journalism students are “bad with numbers”(Bradshaw, 2018; Maier, 2002). This study measures math anxiety on 185 Communication students at the University of Deusto, and explores how it interferes with their math performance. At the same time, a version in Basque of the measuring instrument is proposed and validated, with the aim to prevent the additional anxiety of Basque speakers when dealing with math in a second language, and also to investigate the effects of language switching in math anxiety and performance.