The effects of test item format on self-efficacy and worry during a high-stakes computer-based certification examination.
Part of a special issue on computer-based performance assessment of problem solving. A study was conducted to examine the effects of test item format on state worry and state self-efficacy as a result of completing a computerized, high-stakes certification examination. The certification test admin...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 15; no. 3-4; pp. 495 - 510 |
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Elsevier Science
May/July 1999
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