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Ranking the Emotion Factors Sensitive to English Test Performance

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Since the performance of some high-stake English tests often goes hand in hand with the future career and happiness of test takers, emotions aroused by them are enormous, which has caught much attention within the past few decades. However, due to statistical limitations, so far, few research has been done as to ranking the emotion factors based on their sensitivity to English test performance. Therefore, in this paper, a comparison study concerning the ranking of seven extensively investigated emotion factors has been conducted with gray relational analysis, a statistical method that has no requirements of both sample size and distribution. Results show that motivation-to-avoid-failure, a branch of achievement motivation, is the most sensitive factor to English test performance (comprehensive gray correlation = 0.874, n = 20) with performance-avoidance goal right following it (comprehensive gray correlation = 0.709, n = 20).

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  1. Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, 710065, People’s Republic of China

    Mei Dong & Ying Xue

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  1. Division of Intelligent Future Technologies, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Ning Xiong

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zheng Xiao

  3. School of Computer Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zhao Tong

  4. Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, School of Computer Science, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Jiayi Du

  5. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lipo Wang

  6. Design and Physical Sciences Brunel, Electronic and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

    Maozhen Li

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Dong, M., Xue, Y. (2019). Ranking the Emotion Factors Sensitive to English Test Performance. In: Xiong, N., Xiao, Z., Tong, Z., Du, J., Wang, L., Li, M. (eds) Advances in Computational Science and Computing. ISCSC 2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 877. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02116-0_26

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