Description

This is a brief, applied text intended to give students the tools needed to understand and conduct test anxiety research. The author first provides a detailed discussion of how to measure test anxiety, followed by a step-by-step guide through the entire research process. This text stresses the fact that mathematical literacy is not required for this research and the SPSSX statistical software package provides the complete commands for commonly used research statistics. The author includes empirically tested treatment scripts. Contents: I. Applied Research. Variables Employed In Test Anxiety Research; Internal Validity in Test Anxiety Research; Difficulties That Occur With Test Anxiety Research; Common Research Designs Used In Test Anxiety Research; Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability; Common Univariate Statistics: SPSSX Control Lines for Differences among Means; Multivariate Research Statistical Methodology Using SPSSX Computer Software; II. Assessment. III. Treatment Interventions.

Author: Sapp, Marty

Topic: Education / Teaching
Media: Book
ISBN: 819190403
Language: English
Pages: 360