Gender Differences in Test Anxiety in High-Stakes English Proficiency Tests.

Autor/inn/en	Santana, Josefina C.; Eccius-Wellmann, Cristina
Titel	Gender Differences in Test Anxiety in High-Stakes English Proficiency Tests.
Quelle	In: Electronic journal of foreign language teaching, 15 (2018) 1, S. 100-111 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Tabellen 7
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0219-9874
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Quantitative Forschung; Angst; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Leistungsbeurteilung; Prüfung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englischunterricht
Abstract	Test anxiety can be defined as a reaction of stress to evaluations. This article reports on a study of the gender differences in test anxiety between males and females taking an English language proficiency test - the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) at a Mexican university. Participants (N=231; 47% male and 53% female) were asked to complete Grandis's Questionnaire on Test Anxiety in University Students a few minutes before they took the TOEIC. Responses on the questionnaire were correlated to TOEIC scores by linear regression analysis. Results show that women's scores were significantly higher than the men's on the Test Anxiety questionnaire (F = 65.75 vs M = 53.56), significantly lower on the TOEIC (F= 731 vs M = 772), and that gender is an important factor in test anxiety. (Verlag).
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Update	2022/2