Test anxiety and the validity of cognitive tests: A confirmatory factor analysis perspective and some empirical findings

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-178

  Wicherts, Jelte M ^a   Zand Scholten, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Latent variable modeling; Measurement bias; Stereotype threat; Test anxiety; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049093470     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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