Organizational Leadership & Management: RST-798

Make a list of related terms for your topic, helplessness in learning statistics. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Statistics anxiety, mathematics anxiety, fixed mindset, helpless behavior, affect
• Mathematics education (teaching and learning)
• Key instruments: Statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS), Statistics Anxiety Inventory (SAI), statistics/statistical anxiety rating scale (STARS) - others?
• Educational level (higher education, college students, university students)
• Potential interventions and outcomes (study habits, teaching methods, metacognition, resilience)

Document Your Searches

APA Psycinfo and other EBSCO databases

• In addition to keyword searching, try the Tests & Measures field on APA Psycinfo's Advanced Search page.

• In any EBSCO database, use “Choose Databases” to include additional EBSCO databases in your search.

Use Google Scholar to Discover Newer and Related Papers

• Make a list of any highly relevant older papers
• Use Google Scholar to find newer articles for each one (check off list as you go)
  • Set up Library Links
  • Use the Cited By tool
  • Explore Related Papers

• The library's Zotero guide
• Zotero documentation site

Multidisciplinary Databases

Journal Collections