Test anxiety : applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions / Marty Sapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sapp, Marty.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Statistical methods.

Social sciences.

Test anxiety--Research--Statistical methods.

Test anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : University Press of America, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

TEST ANXIETY; 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 Error2.10 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 Designs4.2 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 Curve5.11 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 Language7.3 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6240-4

OCLC:

865332157