Emotional experiences during test taking: Does cognitive ability make a difference?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Goetz, Thomas ^a   Preckel, Franzis ^a   Pekrun, Reinhard ^a   Hall, Nathan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Anxiety; Boredom; Cognitive ability; Enjoyment; Mathematics; State emotions; Test

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249905903     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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