The nature and relative importance of students' perceptions of the sources of test anxiety

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 617-625

  Bonaccio, Silvia ^a   Reeve, Charlie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Educational testing; Grounded theory; Student perceptions; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149498414     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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