Test Anxiety: A Major Educational Problem and What Can Be Done about It

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• Publication year

  1984

• Venue

  The Elementary school journal

• Publication date

  1984-09-01

• Fields of study

  Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1086/461395
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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