The Analysis of Test-Taking Anxiety from a Sample of Chinese Students Studying Abroad and in the Home Country

Rihua Min, Tianyu Han, Zhihan Yang

2022

Abstract

In light of the high prevalence of anxiety among students and severe test-taking anxiety among Chinese students, one of our main purposes is to discuss whether studying abroad in the United States could relieve test-taking anxiety, and we thus merely recruited participants who were Chinese to test hypotheses. Participants in our experiment were N = 44 Chinese students (age range: 16-24 years, 33 females and 11 males) recruited from multiple high schools and universities across China and the United States. After a comprehensive and comparative analysis, we found that Chinese students studying abroad had less test-taking anxiety than those studying in their home country China. Test forms (test with or without rewards) had no relationship with test-taking anxiety and no interaction with countries for study. The relationship between test-taking anxiety and test scores was largely negative. According to our findings, however, there was no relationship between gender and test-taking anxiety.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Min R., Han T. and Yang Z. (2022). The Analysis of Test-Taking Anxiety from a Sample of Chinese Students Studying Abroad and in the Home Country. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME; ISBN 978-989-758-630-9, SciTePress, pages 394-402. DOI: 10.5220/0011912700003613

in Bibtex Style

@conference{nmdme22,
author={Rihua Min and Tianyu Han and Zhihan Yang},
title={The Analysis of Test-Taking Anxiety from a Sample of Chinese Students Studying Abroad and in the Home Country},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME},
year={2022},
pages={394-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011912700003613},
isbn={978-989-758-630-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME
TI - The Analysis of Test-Taking Anxiety from a Sample of Chinese Students Studying Abroad and in the Home Country
SN - 978-989-758-630-9
AU - Min R.
AU - Han T.
AU - Yang Z.
PY - 2022
SP - 394
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0011912700003613
PB - SciTePress