Validation of a TAI Short Form with an adolescent sample.
Although test anxiety is increasingly used in research with multiple constructs, it is not always possible to administer a lengthy scale to measure it. Taylor and Deane (2002) developed a 5-item short form of the 20-item Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI; see Spielberger, Gonzalez, Taylor, Algaze, & Anton, 1978). Although evidence of reliability and validity was good, there were several limitations, including the age and gender of the sample, and the lack of data obtained with the short form rather than the original TAI. The current study attempts to address those limitations and augment previous results with additional types of validity evidence (i.e., coefficients of divergent validity and exploratory factor analysis) in a sample of 152 seventh- and eighth-graders. Results were high reliability (.86) and good evidence of multiple facets of validity. Previous results were confirmed and extended for adolescents and for use in applied psychological and educational settings.
Marszalek
Jacob M
JM
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology, 215 Education, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA. marszalekj@umkc.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*