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Aydin, Aydan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Teacher candidates who will soon be responsible for educating the future generations should possess certain characteristics. Specific teacher candidates should have specific characteristics taken into consideration: pre-school and primary teacher candidates should be seen as role models by younger students; psychological…
Descriptors: Humor, Preservice Teachers, Multiple Regression Analysis, Anxiety
Brown, Alan S.; Itzig, Jerry M. – 1976
The effects of humorous test questions on test performance of high and low-anxious college students was investigated. It was hypothesized that humor should reduce the anxiety level of high-anxious subjects, and thus improve their performance, while having little effect on low-anxious subjects. Students were assigned to a low or high-anxious group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Higher Education