The relationship between test anxiety and academic performance of untreated test anxious college students

The relationship between test anxiety and academic performance was determined for a sample of fifty-three college students. Classroom examination scores and measures of preterm and postterm self-reported anxiety were collected to test the basic assumptions: (a) that there is a relationship between test anxiety and academic performance; (b) that test anxiety has a debilitating effect on academic performance; (c) to investigate if academic performance changes for test anxious subjects without treatment; and (d) if untreated test anxiety will decline over the course of a semester. The results were consistent with general findings that there is a significant negative correlation between anxiety and academic performance, additionally the academic performance of untreated test anxious subjects did not significantly increase or decrease over the course of the semester and finally there was no significant change in untreated test anxious subjects' test anxiety over the course of a semester.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1990

Author dc:creator

• Vlach-Kolesar, Joanmarie Christine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Don C. Diener

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/137

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1136