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Gabrielle Francis; Nathaniel von der Embse; David Putwain; Eunsook Kim – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
Standardized testing is an integral part of the English and American education systems. However, the use of high-stakes testing has unintended consequences, one of which is test anxiety. Over the last 50 years, increased attention has been directed to developing tools to identify students experiencing test anxiety. However, many test anxiety…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Affective Measures
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Park, Soojin; Esterling, Kevin M. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
The causal mediation literature has developed techniques to assess the sensitivity of an inference to pretreatment confounding, but these techniques are limited to the case of a single mediator. In this article, we extend sensitivity analysis to possible violations of pretreatment confounding in the case of multiple mediators. In particular, we…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Design, Influences, Anxiety
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Dwyer, Patrick; Ferrer, Emilio; Saron, Clifford D.; Rivera, Susan M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study uses factor mixture modelling of the Short Sensory Profile (SSP) at two time points to describe subgroups of young autistic and typically-developing children. This approach allows separate SSP subscales to influence overall SSP performance differentially across subgroups. Three subgroups were described, one including almost all…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Sensory Integration, Acoustics
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Copeland, Alison; Tate, Simon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Debates about how best to support students' transition from school to university have re-emerged periodically since at least the 1970s. This paper focuses upon one aspect of this transition: how to develop the quantitative skills students acquire at school throughout the first year of their degree. We report on an attempt to inject pedagogic…
Descriptors: Pollution, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Anxiety, Geography Instruction
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T. Meixner; B. Ciancarelli; E. P. Farrell; D. Silva García; T. Josek; M. M. Kelly; P. Meister; D. Soule; R. Darner – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Learning in asynchronous online environments has gained importance over the last several decades, and educational environment shifts from the COVID-19 pandemic appear to have increased this need. Science educators and students need information about which approaches work in the asynchronous environment where informal feedback tends to be reduced,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Climate, Asynchronous Communication, Science Education
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Philip Ezekiel Dakwo; Yagmur Cerkez; Engin Baysen – SAGE Open, 2023
Every sport requires players to practice constantly to develop skills and the zeal to become a perfect player increases based on the players' anxiety-performance level. This makes humor styles of players a significant counterweight to the severity associated with anxiety-performance in basketball learning practices. As a result, the study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Team Sports, Anxiety
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Sarfo, Jacob Owusu; García-Santillán, Arturo; Adusei, Henry; Molchanova, Violetta S.; Drushlyak, Marina; Semenikhina, Olena; Donyeh, Philip Soyiri; Zand, Somayeh; Najafi, Reza; Enea, Violeta; Malik, Sadia; Ashraf, Farzana; Malik, Najma Iqbal; Ansah, Edward Wilson; Wongcharee, Hattaphan; Egara, Felix O.; Tipandjan, Arun; Cudjoe, Josephine; Azam, Uzma; Hassan, Mohammed Salah; Helmy, Mai; Vally, Zahir – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has a debilitating impact on learning, achievement, mental health, and the future career life of students. Though MA is a popular research theme, there is little agreement among researchers regarding the cross-cultural effect of gender. The purpose of this paper was to explore the perceived MA differences among males and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Statistical Analysis
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Thompson, Yutian T.; Song, Hairong; Shi, Dexin; Liu, Zhengkui – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2021
Conventional approaches for selecting a reference indicator (RI) could lead to misleading results in testing for measurement invariance (MI). Several newer quantitative methods have been available for more rigorous RI selection. However, it is still unknown how well these methods perform in terms of correctly identifying a truly invariant item to…
Descriptors: Measurement, Statistical Analysis, Selection, Comparative Analysis
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Erozkan, Atilgan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to examine the relationships between subdimensions of anxiety sensitivity and anxiety. The participants in the study were 841 undergraduate students (411 females; 430 males) randomly selected from three different faculties--Faculties of Technical Education, Education, and Sport Sciences--at Mugla Sitki Kocman University. Data…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Carsley, Dana; Heath, Nancy L. – School Psychology International, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a mindfulness art activity (mandala) with a free draw/colouring activity on test anxiety in adolescents with an examination of gender differences, and to assess the effect of dispositional mindfulness on students' experience of mindfulness and test anxiety states. Participants were 193…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Attention, Freehand Drawing, Grade 8
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García-Santillán, Arturo; Martínez-Rodríguez, Valeria; Santana, Josefina C. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a structure of variables that allows us to understand the level of Anxiety towards Mathematics in high school students from the municipalities of Zacatal and Jamapa, Veracruz, Mexico. This was based on the seminal works of Richardson and Suinn [1972], who developed the Mathematics Anxiety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Anxiety, Mathematics Anxiety
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García-Santillán, Arturo; Rojas-Kramer, Carlos; Moreno-García, Elena; Ramos-Hernández, Jesica – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine the variables that explain the anxiety towards mathematics in college students. For this purpose, we used the scale RMARS that integrate 25 items. The sample is non-probabilistic by convenience and the questionnaire was applied to 100 student's enrollment in the "Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz"…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, College Students, College Mathematics, Factor Analysis
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Ramaprabou, V.; Dash, Sasi Kanta – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
The present study was conducted to find out the effect of academic stress on achievement motivation of college students. 50 college students of various professional, arts, and science colleges functioning in and around Puducherry were approached at random to collect data using purposive sampling method. Academic stress scale developed and…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Anxiety, Statistical Analysis
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Yazici, Kubilay – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social studies pre-service teachers' (SSPTs) learning style, test anxiety and academic achievement. A total of 315 SSPTs participated in the study. Data were collected using Turkish versions of Grasha-Reichmann learning style scale (GRLSS) and test anxiety scale (TAS) by Spielberger.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Rode, Jacob B.; Ringel, Megan M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
The current study examines whether R or SPSS output induces greater initial anxiety in students and whether anxiety toward one or both changes after being taught one type of software output throughout the course. The authors each taught an introductory statistics course, with the first course (n = 43) teaching R output exclusively and the second…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Introductory Courses
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