Test Anxiety: Applied Research, Assessment, and Treatment Interventions / Edition 3

by Marty Sapp

Overview

This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety. Marty Sapp presents the various cognitive and behavioral theories of test anxiety along with instruments for measuring test anxiety. He integrates statistical methodology, measurement, and research designs with actual research situations that occur within the test anxiety field. In addition, the SPSS codes for conducting sample reliability and validity are provided along with the codes for finding confidence intervals around population reliability measures. Like the previous edition, the logic of structural equations modeling is presented with the EQS structural equations program. Many researchers view test anxiety as existing of factors such as Sarasons’s four-factor model or Spielberger’s two-factor model. Both models can be easily analyzed by EQS. In terms of treatment, affective, cognitive, behavioral, hypnosis, systematic desensitization, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and the Eye-Movement Technique (EMT) are presented. This book integrates applied research designs and statistical and measurement methodology that frequently occur in the test anxiety literature, but the methodological treatment of research is nonmathematical. Finally, extensive discussions of treatments for test anxiety are provided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761862390
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Marty Sapp is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was president of the Society of Psychological Hypnosis, Division 30, part of the American Psychological Association.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Applied Research
Chapter 1: Variables Employed in Test Anxiety Research
Chapter 2: Internal Validity
Chapter 3: Difficulties that Occur with Test Anxiety Research
Chapter 4: Common Research Designs
Chapter 5: Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
Part II: Measurement Issues
Chapter 6: Measurement Issues
Chapter 7: Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling Using EQS
Part III: Assessment
Chapter 8: Assessment
Part IV: Treatment Interventions
Chapter 9: Treatment Interventions
Index

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Second Edition
The book is incredibly well-written. .. the author communicates in a strikingly clear, straightforward, and importantly, concise manner. .. a valuable handbook of tools and information that will facilitate the research process.

Apa Review Of Books

The new edition of a text for social science students on how to conduct applied research on test anxiety presents information on the uses of structural equation methodologies. other topics discussed include, measurement issues, assessment, and empirically validated treatment interventions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

...the book is incredibly well-written...the author communicates in a strikingly clear, straightforward, and importantly, concise manner. ...a valuable handbook consisting of tools and information that will facilitate the research process.--Apa Review Of Books

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