most universities across iran tend to develop english tests for placement, exit, achievement, and other purposes. examining the various features of such tests is imperative for making informed decisions about learners’ achievement level. the present study examined the features of a university-wide administered english language achievement test at iran university of science and technology (iust)...

background: considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. methods: the existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

Measures of trait anxiety, state anxiety and achievement were obtained on a sample of undergraduate students, half of whom received additional humorous items in the achievement test. In a regression analysis, the trait anxiety x test version interaction was a significant predictor of achievement. Subsequent analyses revealed a disordinal interaction in which highly anxious students hadlower ach...

There is disagreement among researchers about whether IQ tests or divergent thinking (DT) tests are better predictors of creative achievement. Resolving this dispute is complicated by the fact that some research has shown a relationship between IQ and DT test scores (e.g., Runco & Albert, 1986; Wallach, 1970). The present study conducted meta-analyses of the relationships between creative achie...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the rela- tionship among self-efficacy, self-esteem, test anxiety and efl learners’ final achievement scores. a number of 72 students majoring in english literature at shiraz university participated in this study. three ques- tionnaires, general perceived self-efficacy (gpse) scale, rosenberg self-esteem scale (rses), and test anxiety questionnaire (...

objective: the purpose of the current research is to determine the impact of play therapy on academic achievement of students with mental deficiency of khorramabad exceptional elementary school. method: it was a pre-test, post-test study design. 60 students were selected and according to their mental deficiency characteristics were assigned to either experimental or control group. each group co...