the purpose of this research was the the role of coping styles and social support in discriminating of students with high and low test anxiety. 387 of students in azad university of kermanshah selected by clustered sampling and filled the students coping scale and multidimensional scale of perceived social support and test anxiety questionnaire. results indicated that there is meaningful correl...

background test anxiety is a special case of a general anxiety which is of particular importance in students, because students will be the future of the country and the society activists. on the other hand, sleep quality and sleep disorders, have correlation with ailments, poor performance, decreased quality of life and increase of associated costs; this study aimed to determine the quality of ...

although decisions or inferences we make based on test scores depend both on characteristics of test-takers and of testing sit- uations, there is just little research which has been undertaken on the effects of these characteristics on test performance (e.g., in’nami, 2006). the effect of listening strategies on listening performance is also unde- niable (vandergrift, 1997). thus, considering t...

background: test anxiety is one of the major causes of students’ academic failure.  this problem would be more salient for pre-university students as they are highly engaged with university entrance exam. psychotherapy can be supposed as a desired method of reducing test anxiety for students and their parents. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive and relaxatio...

test is the majority of student’s life and test anxiety is an experience that has commonly been observed during exams. in fact, anxiety is a vague feeling and very uncomfortable that so often considered to be associated with one or more physical sense, for instance, the empty feeling of heart palpitations, headache and sweating. the purpose of this study is to investigate and to compare the sel...

Test anxiety was a commonly known or assumed factor that could greatly influence performance of test takers. With the employment of designed questionnaires and computer-based spoken English test, this paper explored test anxiety manifestation of Chinese college students from both macro and micro aspects, and found out that the major anxiety in computer-based spoken English test was spoken Engli...

Substantial evidence suggests that test anxiety is associated with poor performance in complex tasks. Based on the differentiation of coordinative and sequential demands on working memory (Mayr & Kliegl, 1993), two studies examined the effects of sequential demands on the relationship between test anxiety and cognitive performance. Both studies found that high sequential demands had beneficial ...