___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Math Anxiety Scale for Teachers (MAST) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 11-26-2024 last updated: 12-09-2024 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 12-09-2024 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements Millisecond's computerized version of the Math Anxiety Scale for Teachers (MAST) to assess anxiety teaching math. Reference: Ganley, C. M., Schoen, R. C., LaVenia, M., & Tazaz, A. M. (2019). The Construct Validation of the Math Anxiety Scale for Teachers. AERA Open, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419839702 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ self-report measure consisting of 19 5-point Likert Scale questions. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 2 minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONAIRY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'xxx.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: 1 (not true of me at all) - 5 (very true of me) q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'xxx_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startdate: date script was run starttime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedtime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) mastGMA: general math anxiety: total of subscales mastE, mastW, mastSE mastE: subscale Emotionality (q1-q4) mastW: subscale Worry (q5-q8) mastSE: subscale Social/Evaluative (q9-q11) mastATM: Anxiety Teaching Math (q12-q19) mastTotal: sum of all 19 response (range: 19-95) The higher the score, the higher the math anxiety //individual responses to all 19 questions