A number of empirical findings have offered support for a negative association between self - efficacy and stress or
test anxiety among college students (e.g., Barrows et al., 2013; Bandalos, Finney, & Geske, 2003; Bandalos, Yates, & Thorndike - Christ, 1995; Bong, Cho, Ahn, & Kim 2012; Gigliotti & Huff, 1995; Nie, Lau, & Liau, 2011; Onyeizugbo, 2010).
More recent research has documented lower self - concept and greater
test anxiety among gifted students in ability - segregated classrooms.
Not exact matches
As New York state leaders work to fix the much - maligned Common Core education standards, one group with a seat at the table says standardized
tests are causing
anxiety among students — and now there's data to back it up.
And
testing begets
testing: the
anxiety among the nonnuclear neighbors of a
testing state makes the pressure for the neighbors to «go nuclear» almost irresistible.
Now that the
tests in many states are getting harder in order to align with the new Common Core standards and being used to grade teachers, not just students, they're also producing a lot of
anxiety among parents and teachers, too.
Among their less obvious benefits,
tests also provide important opportunities for students to practice healthy ways to manage stress and
anxiety.
Anxiety is prevalent
among public school students, as more and higher stakes are attached to these standardized
tests.
The proposed changes have been welcomed by teaching unions, but many school leaders believe they do not adequately address problems with key stage 2
tests, which last year caused stress and
anxiety among pupils and prompted a boycott in several regions.
There were no differences in math
test scores
among students whose parents had low math
anxiety, and no differences in reading achievement for parents with different levels of math
anxiety.
Among the different measures of
anxiety, the strongest correlations are observed for math
test anxiety and problem - solving
anxiety.
The
test information of
anxiety, depression and study problem peaked
among students with high level of the traits, while the
test information of sociality problem reached a peak
among students with moderate level of the trait.
Despite the low power from the limited sample, all inter-scale correlations demonstrated positive statistical significance indicating correspondence
among these measures of
test anxiety.
Two studies
tested whether
anxiety exacerbated, attenuated, or had no effect on the relation between ADHD and aggression subtypes
among psychiatrically hospitalized children.
The present study
tested the hypothesis that perfectionism and personal control are associated with debilitating and facilitating performance
anxiety among professional performers.
Normative prevalence data for PTSD
among adolescents in New York City prior to 9/11 are limited, but performance
testing of the DISC Version 2.3 in the early 1990s in four cities including New York City found a prevalence of 1.6 % for any
anxiety disorder using DSM - III - R criteria with diagnosis - specific impairment criteria [38].