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Direct linkShaohang Liu; Wenbo Zhao; David R. Shanks; Xiao Hu; Liang Luo; Chunliang Yang – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Practice testing (i.e., practice retrieval) has been established as an effective learning strategy. Uncovering potential factors influencing self-testing usage is a prerequisite to promote its practical use. The present study reports five experiments exploring whether test anxiety (TA) and test stake (1) affect self-testing usage (Experiments 1-5)…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learning Processes, Testing
Finn, Bridgid; Metcalfe, Janet – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
According to the Memory for Past Test (MPT) heuristic, judgments of learning (JOLs) may be based, in part, on memory for the correctness of answers on a previous test. The authors explored MPT as the source of the underconfidence with practice effect (UWP; A. Koriat, L. Sheffer, & H. Ma'ayan, 2002), whereby Trial 1 overconfidence switches to …
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Testing, Predictor Variables
Sie, Maureen A.; Johnson, Geoffrey – 1978
Eighty three applicants for empployment in a hardware supply manufacturing company participated in a study of the effects of anxiety, praise and the awareness of time remaining on employment testing. Two control groups and three testing groups--praise, time, and praise and time--were administered the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), a…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Aptitude Tests, Job Applicants
