Comparing different explanations of the effect of test anxiety on respondents' test scores

Intelligence

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-127

  Sommer, Markus ^a   Arendasy, Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automatic item generation; Cognitive ability; Interference model; Measurement bias; State and trait test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890385754     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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