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Book Synopsis The Effectiveness of an Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety and Increase Test-taking Self-efficacy in Nursing Students Taking Standardized Tests by : Terri A. Amos
Download or read book The Effectiveness of an Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety and Increase Test-taking Self-efficacy in Nursing Students Taking Standardized Tests written by Terri A. Amos and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Raising Test Scores by : Avi-Yonah M. Schwab
Download or read book Raising Test Scores written by Avi-Yonah M. Schwab and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.).
Download or read book Test Anxiety written by Moshe Zeidner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Information Age continues to evolve, test scores will become ever more important as a means of evaluating applicants for demanding technological jobs and candidates for admission into elite schools. The potentially crippling anxiety associated with this competitive atmosphere has created a tremendous body of research. Test Anxiety: The State of the Art is the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and integrative review of the vast body of literature on the problem. The book addresses all aspects of test anxiety, especially those involving theory, research, assessment, and individual differences among sufferers. This book will be an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology and education, especially those concerned with stress and adaptation; personality theory and research; and clinical, counseling, consulting, and developmental psychology. Practitioners - psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, school administrators, and teachers - will likely find useful information on etiology, symptomatology, and intervention with respect to test anxiety.
Download or read book Test Anxiety written by Marty Sapp and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety. Marty Sapp presents the various cognitive and behavioral theories of test anxiety along with instruments for measuring test anxiety. He integrates statistical methodology, measurement, and research designs with actual research situations that occur within the test anxiety field. In addition, the SPSS codes for conducting sample reliability and validity are provided along with the codes for finding confidence intervals around population reliability measures. Like the previous edition, the logic of structural equations modeling is presented with the EQS structural equations program. Many researchers view test anxiety as existing of factors such as Sarasons’s four-factor model or Spielberger’s two-factor model. Both models can be easily analyzed by EQS. In terms of treatment, affective, cognitive, behavioral, hypnosis, systematic desensitization, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and the Eye-Movement Technique (EMT) are presented. This book integrates applied research designs and statistical and measurement methodology that frequently occur in the test anxiety literature, but the methodological treatment of research is nonmathematical. Finally, extensive discussions of treatments for test anxiety are provided.
Download or read book Test Anxiety written by Joseph Casbarro and published by Dude Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing--especially high-stakes testing--is playing an increasing role in schools, giving rise to higher levels of anxiety for both students and teachers. As a result, many students are actually experiencing performance declines rather than improvements. This reference guide is specifically designed to provide teachers with practical, evidence-based strategies for reducing test-related anxiety and improving test performance and overall well-being in students ranging from elementary to high school age.The guide includes recommendations for teaching effective study skills & habits, as well as specific test-taking skills. It also describes how to teach students stress-reduction techniques such as deep breathing, freewriting, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, mindfulness and meditation, and positive self-talk.
Book Synopsis Implementation of a Mindfulness Activity for Nursing Students with Test Anxiety by : Allison Lee Collins
Download or read book Implementation of a Mindfulness Activity for Nursing Students with Test Anxiety written by Allison Lee Collins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergraduate nursing students are voicing a high level of test anxiety related to the high stakes testing within their learning environment. Test anxiety has been well documented in nursing education (Bartlett, Taylor, & Nelson, 2016; Duty, Christian, Loftus, & Zappi, 2016; Gibson, 2014). Quinn and Peters (2016) noted that the "presence of high-stakes comprehensive examinations and the consequences of poor performance complicates test anxiety for nursing students" (p. 146). High stakes testing is not a new educational concept, yet test anxiety continues to escalate each year, especially in nursing (Quinn & Peters, 2016). Text anxiety interventions within the curriculum may prove helpful in nursing students' success. Within studies pertaining to test anxiety, mindfulness has helped decrease test anxiety (Bamber & Schneider, 2016; Ratanasiripong et al., 2015; Spadaro & Hunker, 2016). Mindfulness is considered a strategy used in the third wave of behavioral change approaches; therefore, systematic desensitization was used in a mindfulness intervention for test anxiety. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the impact a mindfulness intervention, using systematic desensitization, had on community college nursing students' test anxiety levels and test scores. Data were collected and analyzed using a sample of 107 associate degree nursing students from a community college in Texas. The intervention group listened to a multimedia Confidence Training for Tests between nursing exams. Post-intervention test anxiety scores were significantly lower (p
Book Synopsis Active Learning in College Science by : Joel J. Mintzes
Download or read book Active Learning in College Science written by Joel J. Mintzes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores evidence-based practice in college science teaching. It is grounded in disciplinary education research by practicing scientists who have chosen to take Wieman’s (2014) challenge seriously, and to investigate claims about the efficacy of alternative strategies in college science teaching. In editing this book, we have chosen to showcase outstanding cases of exemplary practice supported by solid evidence, and to include practitioners who offer models of teaching and learning that meet the high standards of the scientific disciplines. Our intention is to let these distinguished scientists speak for themselves and to offer authentic guidance to those who seek models of excellence. Our primary audience consists of the thousands of dedicated faculty and graduate students who teach undergraduate science at community and technical colleges, 4-year liberal arts institutions, comprehensive regional campuses, and flagship research universities. In keeping with Wieman’s challenge, our primary focus has been on identifying classroom practices that encourage and support meaningful learning and conceptual understanding in the natural sciences. The content is structured as follows: after an Introduction based on Constructivist Learning Theory (Section I), the practices we explore are Eliciting Ideas and Encouraging Reflection (Section II); Using Clickers to Engage Students (Section III); Supporting Peer Interaction through Small Group Activities (Section IV); Restructuring Curriculum and Instruction (Section V); Rethinking the Physical Environment (Section VI); Enhancing Understanding with Technology (Section VII), and Assessing Understanding (Section VIII). The book’s final section (IX) is devoted to Professional Issues facing college and university faculty who choose to adopt active learning in their courses. The common feature underlying all of the strategies described in this book is their emphasis on actively engaging students who seek to make sense of natural objects and events. Many of the strategies we highlight emerge from a constructivist view of learning that has gained widespread acceptance in recent years. In this view, learners make sense of the world by forging connections between new ideas and those that are part of their existing knowledge base. For most students, that knowledge base is riddled with a host of naïve notions, misconceptions and alternative conceptions they have acquired throughout their lives. To a considerable extent, the job of the teacher is to coax out these ideas; to help students understand how their ideas differ from the scientifically accepted view; to assist as students restructure and reconcile their newly acquired knowledge; and to provide opportunities for students to evaluate what they have learned and apply it in novel circumstances. Clearly, this prescription demands far more than most college and university scientists have been prepared for.
Book Synopsis Group Remediation to Improve Student Nurse's Test Taking Anxiety and Self Efficacy by : Tiffany Carol Williams
Download or read book Group Remediation to Improve Student Nurse's Test Taking Anxiety and Self Efficacy written by Tiffany Carol Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis No More Test Anxiety by : Ed Newman (Ph. D.)
Download or read book No More Test Anxiety written by Ed Newman (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD includes relaxation & study guides.
Book Synopsis THE EFFICACY OF ACCEPTANCE BASED BEHAVIOR THERAPY VERSUS COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR TEST ANXIETY AND WORKING MEMORY PERFORMANCE by : Erin E. Bannon
Download or read book THE EFFICACY OF ACCEPTANCE BASED BEHAVIOR THERAPY VERSUS COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR TEST ANXIETY AND WORKING MEMORY PERFORMANCE written by Erin E. Bannon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test anxiety is a major concern among today’s college students. Test anxious students demonstrate consistently diminished performance compared to their less anxious peers. Although the adverse impact of test anxiety on academic performance is well documented, there is active debate about the way that anxiety affects performance. Cognitive interference theory (CIT) may help explain this relationship. CIT suggests that test anxiety leads to increased levels of off-task thoughts, which are processed by the working memory, which leaves fewer resources to manage the task at hand. Traditional test anxiety interventions such as cognitive therapy focus on reducing anxiety by increasing positive or neutral self-talk which may place additional demands on cognitive resources. This may explain the modest improvements in cognitive performance and at times adverse effects associated with these traditional test anxiety interventions. Alternatively, acceptance based interventions, which promote nonjudgmental acceptance of anxious thoughts and feelings, may allow students to conserve cognitive resources that can be used to focus on the task at hand and maximize performance. To explore these possibilities, a sample of 88 university students were randomly assigned to receive one 2-hour acceptance based behavior therapy intervention (ABBT), cognitive therapy intervention (CT), or healthy living intervention (HL). Following the intervention, participants received anxiety inducing instructions and were administered three computerized working memory tasks. Finally, participants completed self report questionnaires. The results of this study demonstrated that participants in the ABBT group had significantly better performance on the digit span forward and Stroop tasks compared to participants in the CT or HL groups. Furthermore, the ABBT group demonstrated the lowest levels of cognitive interference, while demonstrating the highest levels of psychological flexibility and mindfulness compared to the CT or HL groups, while these between group differences did not reach significance due to low power, the pattern of these results demonstrates support for the role of these variables in the anxiety and performance relationship.
Book Synopsis Effects of Mayfield's Four Questions (M4Q) on Nursing Students' Self-efficacy and Multiple-choice Test Scores by : Linda Riggs Mayfield
Download or read book Effects of Mayfield's Four Questions (M4Q) on Nursing Students' Self-efficacy and Multiple-choice Test Scores written by Linda Riggs Mayfield and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the effects of being taught the Mayfield's Four Questions multiple-choice test-taking strategy on the perceived self-efficacy and multiple-choice test scores of nursing students in a two-year associate degree program. Experimental and control groups were chosen by stratified random sampling. Subjects completed the 10-statement General Self-Efficacy survey and two additional statements based on guidelines by the survey authors and self-efficacy theorist Albert Bandura. The intervention consisted of weekly half-hour sessions to learn and practice M4Q. Survey data was statistically analyzed by group and by statement. Multiple-choice test scores were analyzed by group, level, test and test group. Statistically significant differences were found between the final experimental (n = 16) and control (n=17) groups in post-intervention perceived self-efficacy, change in perceived self-efficacy, specific self-efficacy factors, scores on the final standardized nursing test and the mean score of the predictor tests for the licensure examination. A significant correlation was found between the number of M4Q teaching sessions attended and 2nd year students' grades on two teacher-prepared tests. Results indicate the M4Q can have a positive effect on both self-efficacy and multiple-choice test performance. Suggestions for further research were discussed.
Download or read book Good Thinking written by Susan G. Poorman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Student Test Anxiety on Performance Tests by : Maxwell T. Yost
Download or read book Student Test Anxiety on Performance Tests written by Maxwell T. Yost and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test anxiety is a component of performance anxiety, a new addition to the DSM-V; it is a type of social anxiety disorder. Current research in test anxiety indicates that a substantial portion of the student population suffers from debilitating test anxiety and consequently they have lower test scores. Cassady (2010) has found that the prevalence of test anxiety is between 25-40% amongst all students. This troubling statistic, matched with the heavy emphasis on high-stakes testing, has led to the need for test anxiety interventions (Amrein & Berliner, 2002). In the past, test anxiety intervention seminars have lasted anywhere from three to eight hours, but recent budget cuts and tighter financial resources in schools around the country warrant faster and shorter interventions (Ergene, 2003). One such intervention, the Stretch, Tense, Air, Release-relax, Suggestion, Positive Adaptives, and Counterconditioning (STARS-PAC), created by Driscoll (2006) has reduced the time needed to administer down to approximately two 30 minute sessions. The present study looked at the dynamic between intelligence and test anxiety in higher education, and whether the STARS-PAC could help alleviate test anxiety and increase intelligence scores. Only one administration of the STARS-PAC produced noticeably decreased test anxiety scores for students, but intelligence remained unchanged. Hopefully this data can be used to further the efficiency of test anxiety interventions, as well as increasing awareness that having test anxiety should not demean the intelligence of individuals.
Book Synopsis The Efficacy of Brief Digital Mindfulness Interventions on Student Anxiety by : Joshua A. Heath
Download or read book The Efficacy of Brief Digital Mindfulness Interventions on Student Anxiety written by Joshua A. Heath and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General anxiety disorder has been defined by the DSM-5 as excessive worry characterized by traits such as intrusive thoughts and obtrusive physiological reactions (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In modern culture, anxiety in academic settings has been reported as a significant problem afflicting an estimated 41% children and undergraduates (Gregor, 2005; von der Embse et al., 2018). Research examining test anxiety prevalence in age ranges from elementary schools to universities has demonstrated that the rates of individuals reporting "high" test anxiety levels vary between 15% and 22% (Ergene, 2003; Putwain & Daly, 2014). Given the high incidence rates observed in schools as well as decades of research demonstrating the negative impact of test anxiety on student performance, a vibrant domain of research has been devoted to understanding and developing interventions designed to reduce adverse outcomes from test anxiety (Ergene, 2003; von der Embse et al., 2018). Mindfulness, originating from Buddhist philosophy is broadly defined as a present-centered approach to everyday life via purposeful attention to the present moment (Bishop et al., 2004; Brown & Ryan, 2003; Grossman et al., 2004; Kabat-Zinn, 1994; Wolters & Yu, 1996). The present-centered approach has a emphasis of self-compassion, non-reactive awareness, and acceptance (Shapiro et al., 1998). Any individual can attain a mindful state by using several activities, including meditation, yoga, mindful art, and rhythmic breathing (Bazzano et al., 2018; Brown & Ryan, 2003; Carsley & Heath, 2019). Inducing a mindful state is not always a conscious decision, as research has shown it can subconsciously occur (Grossman et al., 2004). anxiety are conducted in K-12 environments. The current investigation found limited research concerning undergraduates test anxiety perception. Between four intervention studies, duration ranged between one week through two months, using either mindful breathing or a variation of MBSR. Each of the studies included reported significantly decreased in test anxiety for intervention groups, as well as increases in trait mindfulness. Additionally, these interventions also revealed effectiveness in improving academic performance and reducing automatic thoughts. Finally, support was provided for digital interventions with one study reporting no significant differences between in-person or digital delivery methods (Cho et al., 2016; Hjeltnes et al., 2015; Lothes et al., 2019; Sampl et al., 2017). The present study adds to the existing literature by investigating the effectiveness of a mindfulness intervention for university students that is both brief and delivered in a digital format. Participants were recruited from a midwestern university to participate in a two-session research study. Each completed personality, mindfulness, and anxiety measures in the initial session with the expectation of a quantitative reasoning test in the next session. The second session divided participants into two groups to receive a brief digital guided meditation video or the same video with no meditation track. Following the intervention, participants received post measures of anxiety and mindfulness. mixed MANOVA and multiple regression analyses to answer specific research questions into the effectiveness of brief digital mindfulness interventions and personality traits relationship with anxiety and mindfulness As predicted, the findings demonstrate the efficacy of a brief digital mindfulness intervention in reducing state mindfulness and state anxiety in university students. However, the results did not reveal a differential benefit for the guided meditation condition as compared to the relaxing condition. The mindfulness intervention conditions were found to have no measured impact on trait mindfulness, trait anxiety, or cognitive test anxiety levels. The regression models used to determine predictor variables for trait mindfulness and trait anxiety conformed to primary representations of the constructs. Specifically, the neuroticism personality trait was instrumental in predicting levels of both trait mindfulness and trait anxiety. Ancillary hierarchical regression analyses added the trait constructs in a secondary block, identifying openness and conscientious as significant predictors of trait mindfulness and trait anxiety. These findings remain consistent with traditional mindfulness intervention literature, despite the current examinations focus on brief digital mindfulness interventions (Cho et al., 2016; Hjeltnes et al., 2015; Sampl, 2017; Loathes et al., 2019).
Book Synopsis The future of psychology: Approaches to enhance therapeutic outcomes by : Peta Stapleton
Download or read book The future of psychology: Approaches to enhance therapeutic outcomes written by Peta Stapleton and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Can Retrieval Practice of the Testing Effect Increase Self-efficacy in Tests and Reduce Test Anxiety in 10-to 11-year-olds? by : Helen Barsham
Download or read book Can Retrieval Practice of the Testing Effect Increase Self-efficacy in Tests and Reduce Test Anxiety in 10-to 11-year-olds? written by Helen Barsham and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
