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Bridging Theory and Practice in the Classroom:

A Reappraisal Intervention for Test Anxiety

Bridgette Martin HardStanford University

PEDAGOGYPSYCHOLOGY

NeuroscienceCognitive

Developmental Affective Science

Clinical

Social

Content

Assessment

Presentation

Engagement

Technology

Strengthen teaching practices

Sharpen knowledge and theory

PEDAGOGYPSYCHOLOGY

PEDAGOGYPSYCHOLOGY

AssessmentAffective Science

Assessment

Affective Science

For students, tests:• Determine grade• Gateways to other

opportunities (e.g., jobs, education)

People often respond to situations like these with feelings of anxiety.

Anxiety: A heightened state of physiological arousal accompanied by future-oriented feelings of distress.

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Calm down Ignore your anxiety

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Get excited

% Endorsed as “Most Likely” for an instructor to suggest

Mohler, Hard, Lam, & Brady (in prep)

Current college students at public

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Important test Anxiety

Bandura (1997); Beilock (2011; 2008); Cassady & Johnson (2002); Wine (1980)

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COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL

Change the meaning

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Gross (2002; 2014)

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Can reappraisal help?

Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock, & Shmader (2010)

“…recent research suggests that arousal doesn’t hurt performance on these tests and can even help performance... If you find yourself feeling anxious, simply remind yourself that your arousal could be helping you do well”

• Students planning to take the GRE.

• Half randomly assigned to receive reappraisal message:

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Error Bars: +/- 1 SEM Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock, & Shmader (2010)

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Error Bars: +/- 1 SEM Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock, & Shmader (2010)

Motivating questions

• Moderation?

First-year students

When you think about taking the exam this Thursday, to what extent do you:

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Brady, Hard, & Gross (invited revision)Error Bars: +/- 1 SEM

Motivating questions

• Moderation?

• Durability?

Method• 431 introductory psychology students,

fall and winter quarter– 55% first-year, 58% female, 64% White

Brady, Hard, & Gross (invited revision)

Method• 431 introductory psychology students,

fall and winter quarter– 55% first-year, 58% female, 64% White

• Random assignment to receive reappraisal message in email from instructor the night before first exam.


Standard condition

Brady, Hard, & Gross (under review, R&R)


Reappraisal condition


Reappraisal conditionPeople think that feeling anxious while taking a test will make them do poorly on the test. However, recent research suggests that arousal doesn’t generally hurt performance on tests and can even help performance. People who feel anxious during a test might actually do better. This means that you shouldn’t feel concerned if you do feel anxious while studying for or taking tomorrow’s exam. If you find yourself feeling anxious, simply remind yourself that your arousal could be helping you do well.

Method• 431 introductory psychology students, fall

and winter quarter– 55% first-year, 58% female, 64% identified as

White• Random assignment to receive

reappraisal message in email from instructor the night before first exam

• DVs: – Anxiety– Worry– Exam performance


Hypotheses

1. Moderation: – First-years, but perhaps not upper-years,

will benefit: showing reduced worry and enhanced performance on first exam.

2. Durability:– Benefits of reappraisal may extend

beyond first exam to overall course performance.


First-year students: Emotional experience

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Upper-year students: Performance


Ongoing research

• Replicating at other institutions, exploring other potential moderators, boundary conditions.

• Exploring longitudinal effects from original sample, now several years later.

Strengthen teaching practices

Sharpen knowledge and theory

PEDAGOGYPSYCHOLOGY

• Shannon Brady• James Gross• Cayce Hook• Amy Lam• Angela Lee• Marleyna Mohler• Jeanne Tsai• Greg Walton• Elizabeth Wong• Yun Lucy Zhang

Research Collaborators:

Teaching Demonstration:Correlation for Introductory Psych

Bridgette Martin HardStanford University

Is it a good idea to multitask on a laptop during class?

Correlational method

1. What is it?

2. Correlation in action: multitasking

3. Interpreting correlational data

4. The limits of correlation


1. What is it?




What is the correlational method?

• Scientific approach that examines how variables are related to each other.

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• Correlation: The tendency of two variables to change together.



Positive correlation


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1. What is it?


3. Interpreting correlational findings




• How is multitasking on laptops related to performance in the class?

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• How is nonacademic multitasking on laptops related to performance in the class?

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What is your hypothesis?

Negative


• We first need to define, or operationalizeour variables.

• Operationalize/operational definition:– Translate the variable we want to assess into a

specific procedure or measurement.

How could you operationalize:“nonacademic multitasking”?

• We first need to define, or operationalizeour variables.

• Operationalize/operational definition:– Translate the variable we want to assess into a

specific procedure or measurement.

How could you operationalize:“performance in the class”?

• Nonacademic multitasking: Proxy server logs http requests – Sum & categorize http requests

to estimate “nonacademic” minutes online (e.g., Twitter, Gmail).

• Performance: Cumulative final exam score

Ravissa, Uitvlugt, & Fenn (2016)

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Interpreting correlational data

• What is the direction and strength of the relationship?


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What is the direction and strength of this relationship?

Correlation coefficient (r): A measure of the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables.

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Academic multitasking

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Correlations with final exam score:


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Interpreting correlational data

• What is the direction and strength of the relationship?

• Does the relationship found in this sample reflect the larger population?


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Does the relationship found in this sample reflect the larger population?

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Imagine a population of 500 people, measured on variables X and Y:

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When you sample from a large population, you can get a correlation in your sample, just by chance.


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Does the relationship found in this sample reflect the larger population?

p-value(p): The probability that we would get this result, given this sample size, if the correlation in the population was actually “0”.


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If p < 0.05,“Statistically significant”

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• How is nonacademic multitasking related to performance in the class?

Negative, r = -.25, p < .05

• Does this mean that nonacademic multitasking causes worse performance?

Negative, r = -.25, p < .05


1. What is it?




Reasons for correlation


The directionality problem


The third variable problem

Name the third variable!

Ice cream sales Drowning deaths


Temperature/Season


Use of contraception Number of electrical appliances owned


Socioeconomic Status (SES)



You can measure potential third variables and use statistical techniques to test their importance.





Correlation ≠ Causation

Does not necessarily =Correlation Causation

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