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Article: Significant predictors of test anxiety among students with and without learning disabilities.
- Article from:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
- Author:
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Over the past several decades, an impressive amount of research has been conducted in the field of test anxiety. However, less effort has been directed toward the examination of test anxiety in relation to students with learning disabilities (LD). In the present study, the relationship between students with and without LD and different aspects of test anxiety was examined on a new multidimensional measure of test anxiety for students in Grades 4 through 12.
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