Test anxiety : applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions /

Test anxiety : applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions /

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Author / Creator:Sapp, Marty, author.
Edition:Third edition.
Imprint:Lanham University Press of America, [2014]
©2014.
Description:ix, 177 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Test anxiety -- Research -- Statistical methods.
Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
Test anxiety -- Research.
Test anxiety -- Research -- Statistical methods.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9914729
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ISBN:9780761862390 (paperback)
0761862390 (paperback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety. Marty Sapp presents the various cognitive and behavioral theories of test anxiety along with instruments for measuring test anxiety.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Applied Research
  • Chapter 1. Variables Employed in Test Anxiety Research
  • 1.1. Variables
  • 1.2. Confounding Variables
  • 1.3. Independent Variables
  • 1.4. Dependent Variables
  • 1.5. Moderator Variables
  • 1.6. Control Variables
  • 1.7. Intervening and Mediating Variables
  • 1.8. Suppressor Variables
  • 1.9. Exercises
  • 1.10. Summary
  • Chapter 2. Internal Validity
  • 2.1. Threats to Internal Validity
  • 2.2. History
  • 2.3. Maturation
  • 2.4. Pretest Sensitization
  • 2.5. Selection
  • 2.6. Statistical Regression
  • 2.7. Experimental Mortality or Attrition
  • 2.8. Instrumentation
  • 2.9. Statistical Error
  • 2.10. Expectation Effects
  • 2.11. Double-and-Single-Blind Controls for Expectation Effects
  • 2.12. Exercises
  • 2.13. Summary
  • Chapter 3. Difficulties that Occur with Test Anxiety Research
  • 3.1. External Validity
  • 3.2. Difficulties that Occur with Test Anxiety Research
  • 3.3. Hawthorne Effect
  • 3.4. Demand Characteristics
  • 3.5. Evaluation Apprehension
  • 3.6. Social Desirability
  • 3.7. Placebo Effect
  • 3.8. Controlling the Hawthorne Effect
  • 3.9. Reactivity
  • 3.10. Pretest and Posttest Sensitization
  • 3.11. Generalization of Results
  • 3.12. Summary
  • Chapter 4. Common Research Designs
  • 4.1. One-Group Designs
  • 4.2. Independent Two-Group Designs
  • 4.3. Related Two-Group Designs
  • 4.4. Multiple Treatment Designs
  • 4.5. Quasi-Experimental Designs
  • 4.6. Counterbalanced Designs
  • 4.7. Nested Designs
  • 4.8. Exercises
  • 4.9. Summary
  • Chapter 5. Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variabilibility
  • 5.1. Averages
  • 5.2. Characteristics of the Mean
  • 5.3. When to Use the Mode
  • 5.4. When to Use the Median
  • 5.5. Skewed Distributions
  • 5.6. When to Use the Mean
  • 5.7. Measures of Variability
  • 5.8. Computer Examples for Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
  • 5.9. SPSS
  • 5.10. Applications of the Mean and Standard Deviation to the Normal Curve
  • 5.11. Moments: Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis
  • 5.12. Summary
  • 5.13. Exercises
  • Part II. Measurement Issues
  • Chapter 6. Measurement Issues
  • 6.1. Measurement Issues
  • 6.2. Testing the Dimensionality of the Worry Component of the Test Anxiety Inventory with Economically and Educationally At-Risk High School Students: Employing Item Response Theory Analysis and Principal Components Analysis
  • Chapter 7. Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling Using EQS
  • 7.1. Overview of Structural Equation Models
  • 7.2. Basic Elements of the EQS Control Language
  • 7.3. EQS Path Analysis
  • 7.4. Selected Output from EQS Path Analysis
  • 7.5. EQS Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • 7.6. Selected Output from Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • 7.7. Confirmatory Factor Analysis Exercise
  • 7.8. Identification
  • 7.9. Model Modification
  • 7.10. Summary
  • Part III. Assessment
  • Chapter 8. Assessment
  • 8.1. Constructs of Test Anxiety
  • 8.2. Defining Test Anxiety
  • 8.3. Parent-Child Interactions and the Development of Test Anxiety
  • 8.4. Measuring Test Anxiety in Children
  • 8.5. The School Environment, Motivation, Learned Helplessness, and Test Anxiety
  • 8.6. Self-Efficacy and Test Anxiety
  • 8.7. Measuring Test-Wiseness
  • 8.8. The Components of Test Anxiety
  • 8.9. Recommendations for Parents
  • 8.10. Test Anxiety and Performance
  • 8.11. Test Anxiety Measures for Adolescents and Adults
  • 8.12. The Development of Mathematical Test Anxiety
  • 8.13. Test Anxiety in the Academically At-Risk
  • 8.14. Summary
  • Part IV. Treatment Interventions
  • Chapter 9. Treatment Interventions
  • 9.1. Psychotherapy Efficacy
  • 9.2. Research to Support Treatment Scripts for Test Anxiety
  • 9.3. Appropriate Clientele and Qualifications for Treatment Scripts
  • 9.4. Introduction to Study Skills Counseling Script
  • 9.5. Study Skills Counseling Session 1
  • 9.6. Study Skills Counseling Session 2
  • 9.7. Study Skills Counseling Session 3
  • 9.8. Study Skills Counseling Session 4
  • 9.9. Supportive Counseling Script
  • 9.10. Introduction to Relaxation Therapy Script
  • 9.11. Relaxation Therapy Session 1
  • 9.12. Relaxation Therapy Session 2
  • 9.13. Relaxation Therapy Session 3
  • 9.14. Relaxation Therapy Session 4
  • 9.15. Systematic Desensitization
  • 9.16. Summary of Cognitive-Behavioral Hypnosis Therapy Script
  • 9.17. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
  • 9.18. Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Eye-Movement Technique (EMT)
  • Index
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