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The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren
Bibliography: pages 141-168.
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| author | Baddeley, Gillian Mary |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17015 The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren Baddeley, Gillian Mary Oxtoby, Richard Dawes, Andrew Psychology Bibliography: pages 141-168. IQ test performance of elementary schoolchildren was investigated as a function of two levels of test anxiety and two types of IQ measure. IQ measures used, the New South African Group Test (NSAGT) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised (WISC-R) were assumed to vary in anxiety-provoking cues on cognitive-attentional theoretical grounds. The hypothesis tested was that high test anxiety would lower performance on the NSAGT, but not the WISC-R. The performance of children varying in test anxiety but equivalent in intelligence was then compared at different IQ levels with the hypothesis that high-test anxious children would perform less well at each level. Academic achievement and self-concept of these children were also investigated, with the hypotheses that high-test-anxious children would be lower in both than low-test-anxious children of equivalent intelligence. The Test Anxiety Scale for Children, the Defensiveness Scale for Children and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale were administered to all Standard 4 pupils at two white, English-language, co-educational schools in middle-class suburbs. Highly defensive children were eliminated; the top and bottom 20% of the test anxiety distribution formed the experimental groups, high-test-anxious (HA; n=28) and low-test-anxious (LA; n=27) who were tested blind, in random order, on the WISC-R NSAGT and achievement data were obtained from school records and subjects assigned to High, Medium and Low IQ levels based on NSAGT scores. Analysis of variance indicated that HA children obtained significantly lower IQ scores independent of type of IQ measure. 2016-02-15T07:12:10Z 2016-02-15T07:12:10Z 1984 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17015 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Psychology Baddeley, Gillian Mary The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| title_full | The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| title_fullStr | The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| title_short | The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| title_sort | effect of test anxiety on iq test performance achievement and self concept in elementary schoolchildren |
| topic | Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17015 |
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