Effect of students' perceptions of course load on test anxiety

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Sansgiry, Sujit S ^a   Sail, Kavita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Course load; Examination; Student attitudes; Test anxiety; Time management

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PHARMACY STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME MANAGEMENT;

ANXIETY; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS, PHARMACY; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33646484525     PISSN: 00029459     EISSN: 15536467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5688/aj700226     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Eggen P, Kauchak D. Educational Psychology: Windows on Classrooms. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; 1999.
2. Mc Donald AS. The prevalence and effects of test anxiety in school children. Educ Psychol. 2001;21:89-98.
3. Musch J, Broder A. Test Anxiety versus Academic Skills: A comparison of two alternative models for predicting performance in a statistics exam. Br J Educ Psychol. 1999;69:105-16.
4. Van Der Ploeg HM. Worry, emotionality, intelligence and academic performance in male and female Dutch secondary school children. In: van der Ploeg HM, Schwarzer R, Spielberger CD, eds. Advances in Test Anxiety Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Stress and Anxiety Research Society; 1984:201-10.
5. Clark J, Fox P, Schneider H. Feedback, test anxiety and performance in a college course. Psychol Rep. 1998;82:203-8.
6. Zeidner M. Test Anxiety: The State of the Art. New York: Plenum Press; 1998.
7. Topman RM, Jansen T. "I really can't do it anyway:" The treatment of test anxiety. In: van der Ploeg HM, Schwarzer R, Spielberger CD, eds. Advances in Test Anxiety Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Stress and Anxiety Research Society; 1984:243-51.
8. Sieber JE. Defining test anxiety: problems and approaches. In: Sarason IG, ed. Test Anxiety: Theory, Research and Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates; 1980:15-40.
9. Morris LW, Davis MA, Hutchings CH. Cognitive and emotional components of anxiety: Literature review and a revised worry-emotionality scale. J Educ Psychol. 1981;73:541-55.
10. Liebert RM, Morris LW. Cognitive and emotional components of test anxiety: A distinction and some initial data. Psychol Rep. 1967;20:975-8.
11. Sarason IG, Sarason BR. Test Anxiety. In: Leitenberg H, ed. Handbook of Social and Evaluative Anxiety. NY: Plenum Press; 1990:475-96.
12. Wine JD. Cognitive-attentional theory of test anxiety. In: Sarason IG, ed. Test Anxiety: Theory, Research and Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1980:349-85.
13. Sarason IG. Anxiety, self-preoccupation and attention. Anxiety Res. 1988;1:3-8.
14. Tobias S. Test anxiety: Interference defective skills and cognitive capacity. Educ Psychol. 1985;20:135-42.
15. Naveh-Benjamin M, McKeachie WJ, Lin Y. Two types of test-anxious students: support for an information processing model. J Educ Psychol. 1987;79:131-6.
16. Cassady JC. The impact of cognitive test anxiety on test comprehension and recall in the absence of external evaluative pressure. Appl Cogn Psychol. 2004;18:311-25.
17. Rasor LT, Rasor RA. Test anxiety and study behavior of community college students in relation to ethnicity, gender and age. Research Report by Community Colleges. 1998. Available at: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/ content_storage_01/0000000b/80/24/48/c4.pdf. Accessed June 11, 2005.
18. Deshler DD, Schumaker JB, Lenz BK, Bulgren JA, Hock MF, Knight J, Ehren BJ. Ensuring content-area learning by secondary students with learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities Res Pract. 2001;16:96-108.
19. Lay C, Schouwenburg H. Trait procrastination, time management and academic behavior. J Soc Behav Pers. 1993;84:647-62.
20. Walker T, Siebert A. Student Success: How to Succeed in College and Still Have Time for Your Friends. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1990:33-9.
21. Weerakon P. Evaluation of online learning and students' perception of workload. Presented at: The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) 2003 Annual Conference. Available at: http://surveys. canterbury.ac.nz/herdsa03/pdfsref/Y1194.pdf. Accessed June 10, 2005.
22. Ramsden P. Learning to Teach in Higher Education. London: Kogan Press; 1992.
23. Henning K, Sydney E, Shaw D. Perfectionism, the imposter phenomenon and psychological adjustment in medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy students. Med Educ. 1998;32:456-64.
24. Sarason IG. Test Anxiety: Theory, Research, and Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawerance Erlbaum; 1980.
25. Seipp B. Anxiety and academic performance: A meta-analysis of findings. Anxiety Res. 1991;4:27-41.
26. Hembree R. Correlates, causes, effects, and treatment of test anxiety. Rev Educ Res. 1988;58:47-77.
27. Topman RM, Klienj W, Ploeg H, Masset E. Test anxiety, cognitions, study habits and academic performance: A prospective study Advances in Test Anxiety Research. Hillsdale 1992:221-41.
28. Rukholm EE, Viverais GA. A multifactorial study of test anxiety and coping responses during a challenge examination. Nurse Educ Today. 1993;Apr;13:91-9.
29. Waterworth S. Time management strategies in nursing practice. J Adv Nurs. 2003;43:432-40.