An assessment-related stress is an object of interest of both educational and neurobiological research. In educational literature, "feeling stressed" is measured by self-reports and mostly in the situation of high-stakes examinations before and after an exam. In neurophysiological research, "acute stress" is laboratory observed…

Heavy academic workload, various stressors, and the high demands a nursing student felt can affect their level of test anxiety. This descriptive interventional study explored cognitive test anxiety in prelicensure nursing students and the effects of mindfulness meditation with Headspace. The Science of Unitary Human Beings and its components…

The study aimed to investigate students' perceptions of undergraduate programs in relation to exit examinations, employing a mixed research design. A total of 145 students participated in the study. Deans, Department Heads, and College Quality Assurance Coordinators were selected based on availability and purposive sampling methods. The study…

In the present research, it was tried to unravel the influence of various types of instruction on test anxiety levels and, in turn, its influence on intelligence test performance. Three types of instruction were compared: a stressful, achievement-orientated instruction; a reassuring, task-orientated instruction; and an ambiguous instruction.…

Nursing programs can be highly stressful, and the investigation was undertaken to see if nursing students are more test anxious than students in other fields. The Westside Test Anxiety Scale has administered to 298 nursing students at two colleges, and to a comparison group of 471 high school and college students. Fully 30% of nursing students…

Levels of test anxiety were compared: (1) among first-year medical students, college students, and high school students; (2) between August and January for first-year medical students; and (3) between male and female first-year medical students. (MLW)

For test anxious subjects, both forms of anxiety management training (AMT) significantly reduced test anxiety compared with controls. For speech anxious subjects, both forms of AMT reduced speech anxiety; however, heterogeneous AMT lowered it more than homogeneous AMT. (Author/BEF)

Tested three groups of Lebanese children (N=80) using scales measuring anxiety, depression, and school conduct to determine variations between children with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), simple phobia, and nonclinical controls. Found scores of PTSD cases significantly exceeded simple phobia and control group scores in all three…

A study of the comparability of results of two techniques of testing, the traditional approach and that of giving the students the questions before the examination, revealed little difference in the two approaches' results, and supports the use of "prior notice" to reduce test anxiety. (MSE)

A study is reported that was designed to determine whether students would experience differential levels of anxiety when faced with three different second-language reading assessment methods. Subjects were students enrolled in first-year English at a Korean university. Cloze and think-aloud procedures were found to elevate anxiety. (seven…

Two studies are presented: one study to complement previous empirical investigations in the field of English as a second language (ESL) concerning test anxiety by having examinees reflect on sources of stress during major examinations, and a comparison between anxiety factors in content and skills courses. In the first study, nine university…