Author : Ginger Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Test-Anxiety Program and Test Gains with Nursing Classes by : Ginger Evans
Download or read book Test-Anxiety Program and Test Gains with Nursing Classes written by Ginger Evans and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing programs can be highly stressful, and nursing students have been found to be more test-anxious than other students. The present investigation examines a practical program to reduce test-anxiety impairment and improve academic performance for a significant number of highly anxious nursing students. Incoming nursing students were screened using the Westside Test Anxiety scale, and half (42 of 84) were identified as having high- or moderately-high anxiety and were randomly assigned to an "active control" Treatment or an information Control group. Students in both groups were introduced to their material and encouraged to review it. Students took the comprehensive Evolve/HESI exit exam in the early spring. The Treatment group showed a significant 12+ percentile gain over the Control group on the HESI (p less than 0.05), and a 9 percentile gain over the Controls on their spring GPAs. The active control treatment protocol used here is seen to provide a cost-effective intervention to improve test performance. Circumstances permitting, the authors recommend that nursing programs include provisions for highly anxious students. (Contains 1 table.).