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Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale

The Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) is a self-report questionnaire assessing anxiety and worry related to mathematics learning and performance. Originally developed by Plake and Parker in 1982 with 98 items and refined to a 30-item version (MARS-30) in 1995, the MARS measures multiple facets of math anxiety: anxiety in test/evaluation contexts, mathematics learning contexts, and everyday numerical situations. It is widely used in educational psychology, mathematics education research, and clinical assessment to identify students with math anxiety and to evaluate interventions.

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Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS)
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  • Plake, B. S., & Parker, C. S. (1982). The development and validation of a revised version of the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 45(3), 503–518. · DOI 10.1177/001316448204200218
  • Plake, B. S., & Parker, C. S. (2004). The Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale: A brief version. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 36(4), 224–232. · URL
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