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Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [4] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users. [5]
This understanding, combined with the recognition of mindfulness as a factor in effective communication, led Gudykunst to name his research Anxiety/Uncertainty Management theory. Gudykunst assumed that at least one participant in an intercultural encounter is a "stranger"—someone who feels insecure and unsure how to behave.
The DSM-IV classifies test anxiety as a type of social phobia. [39] Research indicates that test anxiety among U.S. high-school and college students has been rising since the late 1950s. Test anxiety remains a challenge for students, regardless of age, and has considerable physiological and psychological impacts. [40]
Between 25 and 40 percent of students experience test anxiety. [5] Children can suffer from low self-esteem and stress-induced symptoms as a result of test anxiety. [6] The principles of systematic desensitization can be used by children to help reduce their test anxiety.
Anxiety present questions represent the presence of anxiety in a statement like “I feel worried.” More examples from the STAI on anxiety absent and present questions are listed below. Each measure has a different rating scale. The 4-point scale for S-anxiety is as follows: 1.) not at all, 2.) somewhat, 3.) moderately so, 4.) very much so.
Therefore, this theory suggests that students high in test anxiety will have to allocate more resources to the task at hand than non-test anxiety students in order to achieve the same results. [39] In general, people with higher working memory capacity do better on academic tasks, but this changes when people are under acute pressure. [36]
[86] [87] Another study found that having students reexamine their situation or anxiety can help their executive resources (attentional control, working memory, etc.), rather than allowing stress to deplete them, and thus improve test performance. [88] Subsequent research has found that students who are taught an incremental view of ...
This test provides an easy equation to obtain a score for each category, these scores are compared to the ranges provided at the end of the test; these ranges were obtained by a study of over 40,000 college students and over 3,000 non-students adults provided on a national sample. [1] By this comparison, the test taker can determine their level ...