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Article Title
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Science anxiety is a new name for a phenomenon that all science teachers, regardless of experience, are familiar with. Science anxiety is a fear that many bright and capable students have of scientific studies. This fear carries with it a conviction that they cannot, regardless of effort, understand science. Science anxiety is a very effective sieve that keeps many talented people from careers in science. Those science anxious students who enter teaching act as carriers of the anxiety, thereby infecting their students. Finally, science anxious students become members of our community and contribute to the growing climate of antiscience attitudes permeating our society today.
Publication Date
April 1981
Journal Title
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Volume
18
Issue
1
First Page
40
Last Page
43
Copyright
© Copyright 1981 by the Iowa Academy of Science
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Davis, George
(1981)
"Science Anxiety: How Can We Reduce It?,"
Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 18:
No.
1, Article 16.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol18/iss1/16