Test anxiety versus academic skills: A comparison of two alternative models for predicting performance in a statistics exam

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-116

  Musch, Jochen ^a   Bröder, Arndt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 0042762333     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709999157608     Document Type: Article

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