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We have several research projects completed indicating substantial anxiety reduction and respectable test score gains. See Active Control Training on CD.
Test
Anxiety Scales
Statistics
Use Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
Overviews
We
recommend two summariese, by Ray
Hembree and
Tuncay Ergene:
Ergene provides the most recent overview of test-anxiety reduction methods. Posted here with the kind permission of its author. Tuncay Ergene (2003). Effective Interventions on Test Anxiety Reduction. School Psychology International. 24, 3 (Aug), 313-329.
Who
Benefits?
Test anxious students tend to have lower study skills and lower test-taking skills. Researcher Charles Spielberger concludes that test anxiety reduction benefits students with reasonably satisfactory skills, while poor study skills and poor test-taking skills must be improved for the remaining students to benefit.
amtaa sponsored symposium: Academic Benefits from Test Anxiety Reduction Program. American Psychological Association, Washington DC, Aug. 2005
Grade School vs. College
The few research studies done with grade school children suggest that benefits may be smaller for grammar school students than for college students. We suggest that grammar school students be given additional training reviews, and we have attained reasonably strong standardized test gains with one fifth grade sample.
The high school students in our samples seem to attain the same
good results as college students.
Looking
for stacks of references?
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) Includes abstracts.
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