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Michelle Newcomb; Alyssa Venning – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
Trigger warnings have become a hotly contested practice in higher education, including within the field of social work. Learning to become a social worker can be a demanding process that requires in-depth study about often socially taboo and traumatic topics. The learning process can, understandably, cause discomfort that may result in a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Higher Education, Trauma, Anxiety
Merrill, Paul F.; Towle, Nelson J. – 1972
The effects of behavioral objectives and/or criterion test items on the learning process were investigated. The 123 subjects were randomly assigned to either an example-only, an objective-example, a test-example, or an objective-test-example group. Objectives significantly increased the amount of time subjects spent studying the example displays.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Schimmel, Barry J. – 1988
This study investigated the relationship between learner attitudes (self-efficacy and anxiety), students' selection of feedback containing different amounts of information (no feedback, correct answer, the explanation alone, and the answer with an explanation), and achievement. Subjects were two clusters of college students (N=49) enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction