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Cross-Age Peer Tutoring and Mathematics Anxiety: A Preregistered Field Study

  • P. Okonkwo

    Federal Science College · High school

  • H. Lindqvist

    Uppsala University · Undergraduate

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Abstract

In a preregistered study across four schools (n = 268), we test whether cross-age peer tutoring reduces self-reported mathematics anxiety. We find a small but robust effect concentrated in students starting in the lowest quartile, and no detectable effect on test scores within one term.

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