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Özge Erduran Tekin; Aysin Satan – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: The examination of variables such as resilience and mindfulness, which may help adolescents who are enrolled in distance education cope with test anxiety, is important in terms of reducing test anxiety and increasing the efficiency of distance education. For this reason, it was aimed to examine the mediating role of mindfulness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Anxiety, Distance Education
Kurtuldu, Mehmet Kayhan – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
This study aimed at analysing the correlation between the anxiety level of music teacher candidates during piano exams and possible causes of anxiety and their exam performance. The teacher candidates in the study group were given a questionnaire for piano exam anxiety. Anxiety levels of students and their opinions on causes of anxiety were…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Test Anxiety
Lowe, Patricia A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The present study examined whether cultural differences in different dimensions of perfectionism exist and whether different dimensions of perfectionism (i.e., rigid and self-critical perfectionism) predicted different dimensions of test anxiety while controlling for depression in a sample of Canadian and Singapore higher education students. In…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Cultural Differences
O'Driscoll, Dean; McAleese, Maria – Pastoral Care in Education, 2023
A growing body of work has begun to identify the benefits of self-compassion in promoting positive mental health and wellbeing for adolescents. Test anxiety is a form of anxiety elicited in response to examinations, which can negatively impact academic achievement and wellbeing. The current pilot study explored the effect of self-compassion on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Anxiety, Altruism
Yaffe, Yosi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
This exploratory study aims to reveal how impostor feelings and general self-efficacy co-explain students' test-anxiety and academic achievements, while testing the possible preceding effect of maternal psychological control using the students' recollections of their mothers. The study's sample comprised 142 students at several academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Early Experience
Fauzi, Iwan; Asi, Natalina – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2023
Anxiety or nervousness is one of the affective factors that affects anyone learning and practicing English as a foreign language, especially when speaking the language. Anxiety in English speaking is commonly related to apprehension, fear, and worry that the learners experience when using the language. Most researchers in Indonesia studied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Speech Communication, Anxiety
Lim, May Li; Chue, Kah Loong – School Psychology International, 2023
The present study examined the associations of academic resilience and achievement goals with test anxiety, and the moderating role of achievement goals in the relation between academic resilience and test anxiety among 1632 secondary one students from eight secondary schools in Singapore. Results showed that students who reported lower levels of…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
Conijn, Rianne; Kleingeld, Ad; Matzat, Uwe; Snijders, Chris – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Background: Online and blended learning need an appropriate assessment strategy which ensures academic integrity. During the pandemic, many universities have chosen for online proctoring. Although some earlier examples suggest that online proctoring may reduce cheating, the potential side-effects of proctoring are largely unknown. Objectives:…
Descriptors: Supervision, Computer Assisted Testing, Integrity, Cheating
Nwosu, Kingsley Chinaza; Wahl, W. P.; Hickman, Gregory P.; Ede, Moses Onyemaechi; Nwikpo, Mary Nneka – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
Researchers have recognized the need for updates of test anxiety scales for more measurement accuracy. However, studies that investigated the measurement invariance of the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI), and identified the latent profiles remain scare not withstanding its wide usage in Nigeria. This might have an impact on how generalizability and…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Error of Measurement, Profiles, Measures (Individuals)
Chan, Kwong Tung; Tan, Kelvin – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
Formative assessment (FA) has been a popular discourse in education, but its potential benefit is fundamentally dependent on teachers' willingness to make changes to their classroom practices. These changes bring about much assessment tension (AT). This paper argues that how well teachers experience and manage AT determines the efficacy of their…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Test Anxiety, Teachers, Teaching Experience
Luis Rojas-Torres; Luis A. Furlan; Vanessa Smith-Castro; Guaner Rojas-Rojas – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
It is widely known that test anxiety (TA) is associated with a decrease in test scores. The objective of this study is to provide evidence of the existence of two paths through which TA affects test scores: an indirect path that is associated with the mediation of the updating efficiency and a direct path moderated by the putting into perspective…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Coping, Scores, Correlation
Nurjamin, Asep; Salazar-Espinoza, David-Eli; Saenko, Natalya; Bina, Elia – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Students may better keep tabs on their own development by engaging in self-assessment (S-A), academic buoyancy (AB) construction, and reflective thinking (RT). Although S-A, AB, and RT have been known for a long time, very little is known regarding their potential effects on test-taking anxiety (TTA) and learner enjoyment (LE). Therefore, this…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Foreign Countries, Reflection, Psychological Patterns
Alatli, Betül – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
This study was conducted to review the use of tests. For this purpose, 45 articles in which the Turkish form of the "Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI)," which is one of the tests frequently used in the field of education, was employed and that were published between 2000 and 2020 were examined in terms of factors that should be considered in…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Likert Scales, Test Anxiety, Test Reliability
Chao, Tzu-Yang; Sung, Yao-Ting – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This study developed an Adolescents' Uncertainty Scale (AUS), with the aim of understanding individual differences in uncertainty among adolescents. In the pretest phase, 507 ninth-grade students were recruited. After exploratory factor analyses, a 25-item AUS with four dimensions--irresoluteness, instability, lack of self-knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Anxiety, Ambiguity (Context)
Fenouillet, Fabien; Prokofieva, Victoria; Lorant, Sonia; Masson, Julien; Putwain, David W. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
In the absence of a contemporaneous measure, the present study aimed to validate a French language translation of the Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale (MTAS). In addition, measurement invariance was tested for gender and age. The participants were 520 secondary school students aged 11-16 years. A four-factor model of the MTAS showed a good fit…
Descriptors: French, Translation, Gender Differences, Age Differences