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ERIC Number: ED495137
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 14
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
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Accelerated Desensitization with Adaptive Attitudes and Test Gains with 5th Graders
Miller, Melanie; Morton, Jerome; Driscoll, Richard; Davis, Kai A.
Online Submission, Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention (Washington, DC, Aug 20, 2005)
The study evaluates an easily-administered test-anxiety reduction program. An entire fifth grade was screened, and 36 students identified as test-anxious were randomly assigned to an Intervention or a non-participant Control group. The intervention was an accelerated desensitization and adaptive attitudes (ADAA) treatment which involved stretch-tense, deep breath, release-relax and positive suggestion sequences to expedite anxiety reduction and also positive adaptive associations to each of eight learning, review, and testing scenes. The intervention was presented via a 31 minute recording, which students reviewed in five separate sessions over about half the school year. Test gains were calculated from the 2005 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment tests (TCAPs) given after the intervention, adjusted for individual student 2004 TCAPs before the intervention. The Intervention group attained a significant seven percentile test gain over the Controls. The use of the recorded intervention is seen to vastly reduce the number of professional hours required for an anxiety-reduction program, and the program shows promise as a highly cost-effective means to benefit test-anxious students. (Contains 2 tables.)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Grade 5
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee
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