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ERIC Number: EJ178010
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Examination Retest Procedures: Effects on Performance, Test Anxiety, and Attitudes
Fichten, Catherine; Adler, Lillian
Improving College and University Teaching, 25, 4, 247-50, A 77
Research was focused on the consequences of enabling students to improve performance by allowing a retest on the same content. One of the major hypotheses of the study, that students in the optional retest condition would achieve higher test grades than those in the traditional test-once condition, was confirmed. (LBH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Feedback, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Pretests Posttests, Statistical Analysis, Student Attitudes, Test Results
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