Ann Dowker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Dowker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowker |
| SIGNATURE | DOWKER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3032-2954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mathematics anxiety
BACKGROUND: Many studies have indicated that mathematics anxiety is a significant problem for many people and is an important topic for research. Mathematics anxiety is multidimensional. In particular, it is important to distinguish between worry and emotionality components, and between trait and state anxiety. Much research shows a reciprocal relationship between mathematics anxiety and performance adding to the importance of gaining a greater u…
Developmental Dyscalculia in Relation to Individual Differences in Mathematical Abilities
There is still much debate about the exact nature and frequency of developmental dyscalculia, and about how it should be defined. This article examines several key questions in turn: Is developmental dyscalculia a distinct disorder, or should it be seen as the lower end of a continuum-or possibly more than one continuum-of numerical ability? Do individuals with developmental dyscalculia show atypical brain structure or function? Does the study of…
Conditions of distance learning and teaching and their relation to elementary school children’s basic number skills after the suspension of face-to-face teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic
The suspension of face-to-face teaching, due to the COVID-19 social distancing regulations, raised serious concerns about the impacts on children’s academic learning. Because the implementation of distance education in Germany was entirely the responsibility of individual schools, and because the home learning environments varied across households, school children had very different learning conditions during the pandemic. This fact raises questi…
Is Parental Mathematics Anxiety Associated with Young Children’s Arithmetical Performance
It has been suggested that parental mathematics anxiety may influence their children’s mathematics anxiety, attitudes, and performance. It remains an open question whether these parent-child associations differ by parental sex or parental involvement. We tested 249 Dutch-speaking Belgian participants, forming 83 (biological) mother–father–child trios. The 83 children (age: M = 5.74; SD = 0.30) attended Kindergarten. We tested their nonsymbolic co…
Home Numeracy and Preschool Children’s Mathematical Development
Most studies suggest that home numeracy is correlated with preschool children’s current mathematical performance, and also predicts their mathematical performance longitudinally. However, this finding is not universal, and some studies do not suggest a close relationship between home numeracy and preschoolers’ mathematical development. There are several possible reasons for the discrepant findings, including the exact nature of numeracy activitie…
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition
A Arte do Repente e as Habilidades Lingüísticas
Investiga a relação entre as habilidades lingüísticas e a arte do repente, em sujeitos repentistas (violeiros ou cantadores), poetas orais encontrados no Nordeste do Brasil, muitos dos quais têm uma escolaridade limitada. Vinte repentistas e dezoito não-repentistas com faixa etária, escolaridade e nível sócio-econômico semelhantes foram examinados em um conjunto de tarefas envolvendo produção de rimas, segmentação fonológica, memória de listas de…
Math anxiety and its relationship with basic arithmetic skills among primary school children
BackgroundChildren have been found to report and demonstrate math anxiety as early as the first grade. However, previous results concerning the relationship between math anxiety and performance are contradictory, with some studies establishing a correlation between them while others do not. These contradictory results might be related to varying operationalizations of math anxiety.AimsIn this study, we aimed to examine the prevalence of math anxi…
Mathematics Anxiety
The construct of mathematics anxiety has been an important topic of study at least since the concept of "number anxiety" was introduced by Dreger and Aiken (1957), and has received increasing attention in recent years. This paper focuses on what research has revealed about mathematics anxiety in the last 60 years, and what still remains to be learned. We discuss what mathematics anxiety is; how distinct it is from other forms of anxiety; and how …
The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition
This book provides a comprehensive overview of numerical cognition by bringing together writing by leading researchers in psychology, neuroscience, and education, covering work using different methodological approaches in humans and animals. During the last decade there had been an explosion of studies and new findings with theoretical and translational implications. This progress has been made thanks to technological advances enabling sophistica…
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety
Deaf Children's Understanding of Beliefs and Desires
Twenty-two children (5-12 year old) who were profoundly, prelingually deaf were given two tests designed to tap their 'theory of mind', that is, their ability to attribute independent mental states to other people. The tests were versions of Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith's Sally-Anne task and of Baron-Cohen's breakfast task. Seventy percent of the children were successful on all questions requiring belief attribution, a considerably and signific…
Subject matter and poetic devices in psychotics' poetry
It has long been supposed that there is a connection between the mental processes of psychosis and those of creativity. The present study aimed to investigate this idea by means of a comparison between the poetic output of psychotics and that of normals, taking as its starting‐point the notion that if there are observable differences between these two groups in terms of subject matter and linguistic features, this would suggest that creativity an…
Phonological devices in poems by English and Italian children
Poems were elicited from 133 English children between two and six and 171 Italian children between three and seven, using a similar technique, and the results were compared. Both groups produced large numbers of poems. There were great similarities and some differences. The majority of poems in both samples contained phonological devices (mostly rhyme and alliteration) and the proportion was higher (87%) in the Italian sample than in the English …
Rhyme and alliteration in poems elicited from young children
Attempts were made to elicit poems from 133 children between the ages of 2 and 6. Seventy-eight of the children produced 606 poems between them. Sixty per cent of the poems contained phonological devices; 42% contained rhyme and 26% contained alliteration. There was no obvious age trend as regards the use of rhyme but the frequency of alliteration declined with age. There were no significant age differences as regards the relative frequency with …
Math anxiety and its relationship with basic arithmetic skills among primary school children
BackgroundChildren have been found to report and demonstrate math anxiety as early as the first grade. However, previous results concerning the relationship between math anxiety and performance are contradictory, with some studies establishing a correlation between them while others do not. These contradictory results might be related to varying operationalizations of math anxiety.AimsIn this study, we aimed to examine the prevalence of math anxi…
Rhyme and alliteration in poems elicited from young children
Attempts were made to elicit poems from 133 children between the ages of 2 and 6. Seventy-eight of the children produced 606 poems between them. Sixty per cent of the poems contained phonological devices; 42% contained rhyme and 26% contained alliteration. There was no obvious age trend as regards the use of rhyme but the frequency of alliteration declined with age. There were no significant age differences as regards the relative frequency with …
Phonological devices in poems by English and Italian children
Poems were elicited from 133 English children between two and six and 171 Italian children between three and seven, using a similar technique, and the results were compared. Both groups produced large numbers of poems. There were great similarities and some differences. The majority of poems in both samples contained phonological devices (mostly rhyme and alliteration) and the proportion was higher (87%) in the Italian sample than in the English …
Subject matter and poetic devices in psychotics' poetry
It has long been supposed that there is a connection between the mental processes of psychosis and those of creativity. The present study aimed to investigate this idea by means of a comparison between the poetic output of psychotics and that of normals, taking as its starting‐point the notion that if there are observable differences between these two groups in terms of subject matter and linguistic features, this would suggest that creativity an…
Deaf Children's Understanding of Beliefs and Desires
Twenty-two children (5-12 year old) who were profoundly, prelingually deaf were given two tests designed to tap their 'theory of mind', that is, their ability to attribute independent mental states to other people. The tests were versions of Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith's Sally-Anne task and of Baron-Cohen's breakfast task. Seventy percent of the children were successful on all questions requiring belief attribution, a considerably and signific…
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety
The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition
This book provides a comprehensive overview of numerical cognition by bringing together writing by leading researchers in psychology, neuroscience, and education, covering work using different methodological approaches in humans and animals. During the last decade there had been an explosion of studies and new findings with theoretical and translational implications. This progress has been made thanks to technological advances enabling sophistica…
Mathematics Anxiety
The construct of mathematics anxiety has been an important topic of study at least since the concept of "number anxiety" was introduced by Dreger and Aiken (1957), and has received increasing attention in recent years. This paper focuses on what research has revealed about mathematics anxiety in the last 60 years, and what still remains to be learned. We discuss what mathematics anxiety is; how distinct it is from other forms of anxiety; and how …
Math anxiety and its relationship with basic arithmetic skills among primary school children
BackgroundChildren have been found to report and demonstrate math anxiety as early as the first grade. However, previous results concerning the relationship between math anxiety and performance are contradictory, with some studies establishing a correlation between them while others do not. These contradictory results might be related to varying operationalizations of math anxiety.AimsIn this study, we aimed to examine the prevalence of math anxi…
A Arte do Repente e as Habilidades Lingüísticas
Investiga a relação entre as habilidades lingüísticas e a arte do repente, em sujeitos repentistas (violeiros ou cantadores), poetas orais encontrados no Nordeste do Brasil, muitos dos quais têm uma escolaridade limitada. Vinte repentistas e dezoito não-repentistas com faixa etária, escolaridade e nível sócio-econômico semelhantes foram examinados em um conjunto de tarefas envolvendo produção de rimas, segmentação fonológica, memória de listas de…
Home Numeracy and Preschool Children’s Mathematical Development
Most studies suggest that home numeracy is correlated with preschool children’s current mathematical performance, and also predicts their mathematical performance longitudinally. However, this finding is not universal, and some studies do not suggest a close relationship between home numeracy and preschoolers’ mathematical development. There are several possible reasons for the discrepant findings, including the exact nature of numeracy activitie…
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition
Is Parental Mathematics Anxiety Associated with Young Children’s Arithmetical Performance
It has been suggested that parental mathematics anxiety may influence their children’s mathematics anxiety, attitudes, and performance. It remains an open question whether these parent-child associations differ by parental sex or parental involvement. We tested 249 Dutch-speaking Belgian participants, forming 83 (biological) mother–father–child trios. The 83 children (age: M = 5.74; SD = 0.30) attended Kindergarten. We tested their nonsymbolic co…
Conditions of distance learning and teaching and their relation to elementary school children’s basic number skills after the suspension of face-to-face teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic
The suspension of face-to-face teaching, due to the COVID-19 social distancing regulations, raised serious concerns about the impacts on children’s academic learning. Because the implementation of distance education in Germany was entirely the responsibility of individual schools, and because the home learning environments varied across households, school children had very different learning conditions during the pandemic. This fact raises questi…
Developmental Dyscalculia in Relation to Individual Differences in Mathematical Abilities
There is still much debate about the exact nature and frequency of developmental dyscalculia, and about how it should be defined. This article examines several key questions in turn: Is developmental dyscalculia a distinct disorder, or should it be seen as the lower end of a continuum-or possibly more than one continuum-of numerical ability? Do individuals with developmental dyscalculia show atypical brain structure or function? Does the study of…
Mathematics anxiety
BACKGROUND: Many studies have indicated that mathematics anxiety is a significant problem for many people and is an important topic for research. Mathematics anxiety is multidimensional. In particular, it is important to distinguish between worry and emotionality components, and between trait and state anxiety. Much research shows a reciprocal relationship between mathematics anxiety and performance adding to the importance of gaining a greater u…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (7 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematical anxiety (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Poetry (4 works)