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Eliminating Motivational Causes of Test Bias. Final Report, October 1, 1976 through March 31, 1980.

Hill, Kennedy T. – 1980

This program of research has three general thrusts. First, the relations between motivation and achievement performance were studied across children of various sociocultural backgrounds including lower- and middle- class white, black, and hispanic children. Motivational test bias was found to be strong for students of all sociocultural…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Motivation, Racial Differences

Interfering Effects of Test Anxiety on Test Performance: A Growing Educational Problem and Solutions to It.

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Hill, Kennedy T. – Illinois School Research and Development, 1983

Reviews a 20-year program of research on motivation and test performance, concluding that test anxiety and test-taking skill deficits are distorting factors in efforts to test student aptitude, achievement, and competency. (FL)

Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education