Many teens are stressed and anxious and many are stressed and anxious about school. That’s important but perhaps not breaking news. And that in itself doesn't necessarily make anxiety an academic issue.  But anxiety’s effects on performance and achievement do. The good news is, research tells us what we can do about it.

Links:

• Pew Research Center 2019 study showing anxiety among teens.
• Mott Poll Report on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teen mental health
• PISA:  OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment that measures  15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.
• CIRP Freshmen Survey
• NIH meta-analysis of the relation between math anxiety and math achievement
• Reading, Anxiety, Engagement, and Achievement
• Mixed-method study Investigating Writing Strategies, Writing Anxiety and Their Effects on Writing Achievement
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What to Do
• American Psychological Association on stereotype threat and achievement
• Reducing the effect of stereotype threat I: theories of intelligence
• Reducing the effect of stereotype threat II: self-integrity
• Reducing the effect of stereotype threat III: emotion regulation

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