test anxiety

collocation in English

meaningsoftestandanxiety

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test
noun[C]
uk
/test/us
/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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anxiety
noun
uk
/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.ti/us
/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.t̬i/
an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in ...
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(Definition oftestandanxietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The effects oftestanxietyon listening test performance.
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Learned helplessness,testanxietyand academic achievement : a longitudinal analysis.
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This study focuses on one of the personal characteristics of test-takers, namelytestanxiety, and investigates the effects of test anxiety on listening test performance.
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Experimental approaches totestanxiety: attention and the uses of information.
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Results based on structural equation modeling show thattestanxietydoes not affect listening test performance.
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Participants took a listening performance test, and answered two questionnaires designed to measuretestanxiety.
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This negative impact of emotion is familiar in cases of performance anxiety,testanxiety, and the poor overall learning ability of patients with psychiatric depression and anxiety disorders.
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People who experiencetestanxietyoften have parents or siblings who havetestanxietyor other types of anxiety.
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Testanxietyis known to develop into a vicious cycle.
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She likened library anxiety to mathematical anxiety andtestanxiety.
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Symptoms oftestanxietycan range from moderate to severe.
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Researchers suggest that between 25 to 40 percent of students experiencetestanxiety.
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Anxiety can include social anxiety, anxiety about public speaking as well astestanxiety.
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Testanxietycan also be labeled as anticipatory anxiety, situational anxiety or evaluation anxiety.
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Therefore, students with hightestanxietyare unable to focus their full attention on the test.
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Other causes oftestanxietymay include fear of failure, procrastination, and previous poor test performance.
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The principles of systematic desensitization can be used by children to help reduce theirtestanxiety.
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Fortestanxietythese items could include not understanding directions, finishing on time or marking the answers properly.
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Children can suffer from low self-esteem and stress induced symptoms as a result oftestanxiety.
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Testanxietyfor these authors consists of physiological and mental processes, and impaired test performance is seen as the result.
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According to this theory, this producestestanxietyand keeps them from doing as well as they could on tests.
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People who suffer fromtestanxietyare more likely to experience negative cognitions while in evaluative situations.
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In contrast, people withtestanxietyhave a state anxiety which results in high levels of nervousness specific to testing.
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