Development and Reliability of the Five-Mechanism Test Anxiety Instrument

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Abstract

Affect plays an important role in the learning process. While most research focuses on improving student performance on high-stakes tests from cognitive approaches, little has been paid to improving student performance on tests by inducing positive mood to reduce test-anxiety.
Recently there has been scholarly interest in the interdependence and interplay between cognition and affective processes in student learning. However, current test anxiety instruments do not reflect this trend. The purpose of the proposed study is to develop a test anxiety instrument that measures five different mechanisms associated with test anxiety.

Author

• Colleen Pinar, Independent Researcher