Reduction of Test Anxiety

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The paper presents a proposal for research that is to be conducted on mature, adult learners. The paper reviews literature, examining proposed research interventions as well as the validity of internal vs. external interventions. The paper also addresses the utilization of cognitive counseling to reduce test anxiety in self-reporting high test anxious individuals.

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"One of the most difficult issues with regard to education is test anxiety, as people who report test anxiety are completely capable of learning and assimilating materials they learn but are to differing degrees unable to prove such knowledge development in a traditional testing setting. There are many theories associated with test anxiety, including but not limited to those which attempt to reduce it by changing the test environment, and or applying counseling, psychiatric services or even in some extreme cases medication, such as beta blockers that are said to help the individual relax enough to demonstrate learning."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Beck, A. T., Emery, G., & Greenberg, R. L. (1985). Anxiety Disorders and Phobias A Cognitive Perspective. New York: Basic Books.
• Campbell, D. D. (1984). The New Majority: Adult Learners in the University. Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press.
• Chapell, M. S., & Overton, W. F. (1998). Development of Logical Reasoning in the Context of Parental Style and Test Anxiety. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 44(2), 141.
• Crocker, L., & Schmitt, A. (1987). Improving Multiple-Choice Test Performance for Examinees with Different Levels of Test Anxiety. Journal of Experimental Education, 55(4), 201-205.
• Cubberly, W. E., Weinstein, C. E., Cubberly, R. D., Taylor, J. A., Tobias, S., & O'Neil. (1986). The Interactive Effects of Cognitive Learning Strategy Training and Test Anxiety on Paired-Associate Learning. Journal of Educational Research, 79(3), 163-168.

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