Table 5.

Math Anxiety differences with responses provided by 10 or more participants on Instructional Scale Open-ended Questions.

Open-ended question response	Mean (SD)	t-value (df)	p-value
3. TEACHER DID SOMETHING TO INCREASE MATH ANXIETY
No (n = 38, 29.5%)†	61.50 (16.19)
Yes (n = 85, 65.9%)	71.70 (19.30)	2.84 (121)	0.005*
Having a teacher speak about how difficult math was (n = 14, 10.9%)	61.71 (17.29)	0.04 (50)	0.967
Having a math teacher who made them feel poorly about themselves (n = 12, 9.3%)	82.08 (18.31)	3.72 (48)	0.001*
4. TEACHER DID SOMETHING TO DECREASE MATH ANXIETY
No (n = 30, 23.3%)†	66.81 (16.98)
Yes (n = 95, 73.6%)	68.56 (19.47)	0.44 (123)	0.659
Having a teacher who was available for extra help (n = 32, 24.8%)	72.06 (19.60)	1.12 (60)	0.266
Having a teacher who gave encouragement, either praise, support, or both (n = 29, 22.5%)	71.34 (17.31)	1.02 (57)	0.314
Having a teacher who explained and/or answered questions until they were understood (n = 20, 15.5%)	60.10 (19.64)	1.29 (48)	0.205
Teacher provided lots of examples/practice items (n = 11, 8.5%)	52.36 (12.83)	2.56 (39)	0.015**

Complete text of the open-ended questions can be found in Appendix B (Supplementary Material).

^*p < 0.01.

^**p < 0.01 after controlling for general and test anxiety.

^†Indicates the comparison group for all analyses within that question.