Test Anxiety and Standardized Achievement Test Performance in the Middle School Years

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ID12098554
AuthorsLinda Crocker (Linda Crocker is a professor in the Foundations of Education Department, University of Florida, Gainesville., corresponding author), Alicia P Schmitt (Educational Testing Service), Alicia Schmitt (Alicia Schmitt is a measurement statistician at the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.), Linda Tang (Linda Tang is a graduate assistant at the University of Florida, Gainesville.)
Year1988
Volume20
Issue4
Pages149-157
Publication date1988-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeasurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0748-1756 • E-ISSN: 1947-6302
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07481756.1988.12022865
OpenAlexW2733592193
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited5

Some researchers have suggested that the relationship of test anxiety and test performance differs for Black and White youth, but limitations in the researchers' analyses prevented adequate testing of this hypothesis. A sample of 222 seventh and 188 eighth graders responded to a test anxiety scale before taking the Metropolitan Achievement Test. In a multivariate multiple regression, race and test anxiety were significantly related to test performance in all five academic subjects, but there were no significant interactions between race and test anxiety, or sex and test anxiety. This result calls into question the differential relationship hypothesis

Academic achievement · Achievement test · Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Mathematics education · Psychiatry · Standardized test · Test (biology · Test anxiety · Test score · Clinical Psychology · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Psychology · School Choice and Performance

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