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Head, L. Quinn; Knight, Carol Bugg – 1988
The effects of trait anxiety (stable anxiety resulting from personality characteristics pre-disposing an individual to anxiety) and test difficulty on state anxiety (transitory anxiety resulting from situations regarded as difficult or dangerous) and test difficulty perception of 25 undergraduates were studied. The Test Anxiety Inventory was used…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Personality Traits
Download full textRocklin, Thomas – 1989
In self-adapted testing, examinees are allowed to choose the difficulty of each item to be presented immediately before attempting it. Previous research has demonstrated that self-adapted testing leads to better performance than do fixed-order tests and is preferred by examinees. The present study examined the strategies that 29 college students…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Attribution Theory, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
