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Peer reviewedHill, Kennedy T.; Wigfield, Allan – Elementary School Journal, 1984
Discusses the problem of and solution to anxiety in school testing situations. Focuses on Hill and his colleagues' long term program of research. Describes school intervention studies where new evaluation procedures and teaching programs have been developed to help students perform better in evaluative situations. (CB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grades (Scholastic), Intervention
Hill, Kennedy T.; Horton, Margaret W. – 1986
Educational solutions to the problem of test anxiety were explored. Test anxiety has a debilitating effect on performance which increases over the school years. The solution is, first, to measure test anxiety so that the extent of it, as well as the effectiveness of programs designed to alleviate it, can be measured. The seven-item Comfort Index,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Curriculum Evaluation
