PURPOSE During their early years at medical school, students repeatedly criticize their workload, time constraints and test associated stress. At the same time, depressiveness and anxiety among first and second year medical students are on the rise. We therefore hypothesized that test anxiety may be related to depressiveness and considered cognitive and academic performances as confounders for ...

This study tested the veracity of a model of Mathematics Anxiety as the end-point of related self-regulatory and self-efficacy processes. Data were collected in India from 232, eighth grade students on the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and the Mathematics Anxiety Scale. Demographic information such as student’s gender, age, marks scored in last mathematics exam and occupation ...

Ebeveynler ile çocuğun ilişkisinde sınav başarısı merkezi bir konumdadır. Hatta bazı ailelerde dönüm noktası gibi de algılanmaktadır. Günümüzün başarı odaklı ve rekabetçi sistemi içerisinde çocuklar küçük yaşlardan itibaren çok sayıda deneyimiyle karşı karşıya kalırlar. Çocukların yüzleşmek zorunda oldukları süreçleri beraberinde kaygısını da ortaya çıkarmaktadır. Sınav kaygısının çıkmasında bi...

Healthcare educators are encouraged to provide both skill-based practical exams and interprofessional experiences prepare students for clinical practice. With come increased student stress anxiety. This article reports on the development, exploratory outcomes, lessons learned from an ungraded objective structured examinations (OSCEs) event involving doctoral-level occupational therapy bachelor-...

BACKGROUND The use of anonymous audience response technology (ART) to actively engage students in classroom learning has been evaluated positively across multiple settings. To date, however, there has been no empirical evaluation of the use of individualised ART handsets and formative feedback of ART scores. The present study investigates student perceptions of such a system and the relationshi...

Background: Test anxiety (TA) can hinder students’ academic achievement and cause them educational decline and psychological problems. Objective: The effect of inhalation aromatherapy with lavender essential oil on nursing students’ test anxiety was investigated. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study was conducted on 33 nursing students who had taken the Community Health Nursing II cours...

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...

In many social science majors, e.g., psychology, students report high levels of statistics anxiety. However, these majors are often chosen by students who are less prone to mathematics and who might have experienced difficulties and unpleasant feelings in their mathematics courses at school. The present study investigates whether statistics anxiety is a genuine form of anxiety that impairs stud...