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Test anxiety: Theory, assessment, and treatment.

Charles D. Spielberger, Peter R. Vagg

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Part 1 Test Anxiety, Theory and Measurement. Test Anxiety: A Transactional Process Model. The Measurement of Test Anxiety: An Overview. An Evaluation of Test Anxiety Scales: Convergent, Divergent and Predictive Validity. Theory and Measurement of Test Anxiety as a Situation-Specific Trait. Part II Antecedents, Correlates and Consequences of Test Anxiety. Case Studies of Test-Anxious Students. Test Anxiety, Hemispheric Lateralisation and Information Processing. Perspectives on Mathematics Anxiety and Test Anxiety, Anxiety and Test Performance. Part III Research on the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Study Skills Counselling and Anxiety-Coping Training in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. A Comparison Of Cognitive Therapy And Rational-Emotive Therapy in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Cognitive Coping and Biofeedback in the Reduction of Test Anxiety. Cognitive Therapy, Study-Skills Training and Biofeedback in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Part IV Theory-Based Treatment of Test Anxiety. Treatment of Test Anxiety: Application of the Transactional Process Model.

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Part 1 Test Anxiety, Theory and Measurement. Test Anxiety: A Transactional Process Model. The Measurement of Test Anxiety: An Overview. An Evaluation of Test Anxiety Scales: Convergent, Divergent and Predictive Validity. Theory and Measurement of Test Anxiety as a Situation-Specific Trait. Part II Antecedents, Correlates and Consequences of Test Anxiety. Case Studies of Test-Anxious Students. Test Anxiety, Hemispheric Lateralisation and Information Processing. Perspectives on Mathematics Anxiety and Test Anxiety, Anxiety and Test Performance. Part III Research on the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Study Skills Counselling and Anxiety-Coping Training in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. A Comparison Of Cognitive Therapy And Rational-Emotive Therapy in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Cognitive Coping and Biofeedback in the Reduction of Test Anxiety. Cognitive Therapy, Study-Skills Training and Biofeedback in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Part IV Theory-Based Treatment of Test Anxiety. Treatment of Test Anxiety: Application of the Transactional Process Model.

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Part 1 Test Anxiety, Theory and Measurement. Test Anxiety: A Transactional Process Model. The Measurement of Test Anxiety: An Overview. An Evaluation of Test Anxiety Scales: Convergent, Divergent and Predictive Validity. Theory and Measurement of Test Anxiety as a Situation-Specific Trait. Part II Antecedents, Correlates and Consequences of Test Anxiety. Case Studies of Test-Anxious Students. Test Anxiety, Hemispheric Lateralisation and Information Processing. Perspectives on Mathematics Anxiety and Test Anxiety, Anxiety and Test Performance. Part III Research on the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Study Skills Counselling and Anxiety-Coping Training in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. A Comparison Of Cognitive Therapy And Rational-Emotive Therapy in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Systematic Desensitisation. Cognitive Coping and Biofeedback in the Reduction of Test Anxiety. Cognitive Therapy, Study-Skills Training and Biofeedback in the Treatment of Test Anxiety. Part IV Theory-Based Treatment of Test Anxiety. Treatment of Test Anxiety: Application of the Transactional Process Model.

Key concepts: Test anxiety, Anxiety, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Test (biology), Cognition, Psychiatry, Biology

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