Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Chinese Math Anxiety Rating Scale-Revised for Undergraduate Calculus Learners

以驗證性因素分析探討大學微積分學習者數學焦慮量表之建構效度

吳智鴻(Chih-Hung Wu) ； 林韋廷(Wei-Ting Lin) ； 施淑娟(Shu-Chuan Shih)

《測驗學刊》 65卷3期 (2018/09) Pp. 291-313

摘要

Math anxiety, a feeling of uncertainty, helplessness, and fear of mathematics, affects students' learning and performance. To understand the level of math anxiety of Taiwanese college students learning calculus, this study translated the original English version of Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale-Revised (MARS-R) into Chinese and evaluated the translation, construct, and criterion-related validity with the Mathematics Self- Efficacy Scale. The modified Chinese MARS-R comprises 16 items, 11 in learning math anxiety and 5 in math evaluating anxiety subscales respectively. The modified MARS-R is robust and demonstrated a negative correlation with the Mathematics Self- Efficacy Scale. Our revised MARS-R is highly suitable for evaluating math anxiety in both female and male Chinese college students learning calculus.

關鍵字

confirmative factor analysis ； Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale-Revised ； measure invariance ； undergraduate calculus learner

並列摘要

數學焦慮是對於數學感到不確定、無助與恐懼的情緒，會影響學生的學習成效。為了瞭解華人大學生微積分學習時的數學焦慮，本研究將英文版MARS-R翻譯為中文版，並檢驗其翻譯效度、建構效度、與「數學自我效能量表」的效標關聯效度，以及跨性別的測量恆等性。修正後的中文版MARS-R包含16題，其中11題為數學學習焦慮子量表、5題為數學測驗焦慮子量表。本量表具有良好的模式適配度，且在實證結果中顯示數學焦慮與數學自我效能為顯著負相關。本量表經過驗證，可作為學習微積分時數學焦慮之量測工具，並且具有跨性別的測量恆等性，無論男性或女性的大學學生均適用。

並列關鍵字

大學微積分學習者 ； 修正版數學焦慮量表 ； 測量恆等性 ； 驗證性因素分析

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