Jenny Terry, the SMARVUS Team, and Andy Field (2026)
This programme of research examined whether the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) captures anything distinct from the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (R-MARS). Across two large-scale, multi-sample, pre-registered studies, multiple psychometric and other quantitative analyses suggested remarkably little separation between the constructs. The findings raise important questions about how statistics anxiety has been conceptualised and measured in higher education research.Â
Research in Progress
Lead/Senior Researcher:
Are self-reported statistics grades accurate (enough)?
Which constructs is the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) actually measuring?
Does measurement invariance hold for the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) across languages?
RE-EXAMINING THE LSAS-SR Factor structure in a large international sample using the SMARVUS DATASET
CROSS-CULTURAL Validation of the Cognitive Reflection Test using Item Response Theory
Contributing Researcher:
Janos Salamon, Jenny Terry, András ZsidĂł, Balazs Aczel, & Tamás Nagy. (2026). Statistics anxiety: validity, measurement invariance, and educational correlates in the Hungarian STARS. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2026.2646167Â
Jenny Terry, Laura Le, Rhys Jones, Jamie Sergeant, Bruce Dunham, & Elinor Jones. (2025). Education research: Getting started. Teaching Statistics, 48, S53–S66. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.70008
Madeleine Pownall, Jenny Terry, Elizabeth Collins, Martina Sladekova and Abigail Jones. (2023). UK Psychology PhD researchers’ knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of open science. Cogent Psychology, 10(1).  https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2248765Â
Jenny Terry, the SMARVUS Team, and Andy Field. (2023). Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80Â
Madeleine Pownall, Flávio Azevedo, ..., Jenny Terry, ... FORRT. (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10:221255. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221255Â
Sam Parsons, Flávio Azevedo, …, Jenny Terry, ..., Balazs Aczel. (2022). A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 312–318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01269-4