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Driscoll, Richard; Holt, Bruce – Online Submission, 2012
This study was undertaken to replicate prior findings in which a test-anxiety control training produced substantial test gains among students on academic probation. Twelve first semester students with marginal achievement were identified, screened for test anxiety, and found to have substantially higher anxiety than other students. Ten of the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, School Holding Power, Test Anxiety, Academic Persistence
Balkam, Brittany E.; Nellessen, Jenny A.; Ronney, Heather M. – Online Submission, 2013
Throughout this action research project report, the teacher-researchers explored the problem of test anxiety among students. The purpose of this project was to alleviate test anxiety among students with various interventions in grades five through seven in the subject areas of social studies, science, and language arts. There were 66 student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Test Anxiety, Elementary School Students
Evans, Ginger; Ramsey, Gary; Driscoll, Richard – Online Submission, 2010
Nursing programs can be highly stressful, and nursing students have been found to be more test-anxious than other students. The present investigation examines a practical program to reduce test-anxiety impairment and improve academic performance for a significant number of highly anxious nursing students. Incoming nursing students were screened…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Exit Examinations, Program Effectiveness
Miller, Melanie; Morton, Jerome; Driscoll, Richard; Davis, Kai A. – Online Submission, 2006
The study evaluates an easily-administered test-anxiety reduction program. An entire fifth grade was screened, and 36 students identified as test-anxious were randomly assigned to an Intervention or a non-participant Control group. The intervention was an accelerated desensitization and adaptive attitudes (ADAA) treatment which involved…
Descriptors: Intervention, Desensitization, Relaxation Training, Stress Management