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Is Cognitive Test-taking Anxiety Associated with Academic Performance among Nursing Students?

Video Author: Susan M. Duty, ScD, RN
Jocelyn Loftus, MSN, RN
Ladonna Christian, MSN, RN
Published on: 03.14.2016
Associated with: Nurse Educator. 41(2):70-74, March/April 2016

Are your students stressed when taking tests in your course? Does that anxiety affect their grades? Watch this video and read the article to learn more about the relationship of test anxiety and academic performance among nursing students. Modest but statistically significant lower examination grade T scores were observed for students with high compared with low levels of cognitive test anxiety. High levels of anxiety were associated with reduced academic performance.

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