A STUDY OF TEST ANXIETY AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS
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- 1. Associate Professor, Department of Educational Planning and Administration, Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Karapakkam, Chennai, Tamilnadu
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Anxiety is a common phenomenon that constitutes a universal cause of poor academic performance among students worldwide. It is a kind of self preoccupation which is manifested as self- minimization and results in negative cognitive evaluation, lack of concentration, unfavorable physiological reactions and academic failure. Test anxiety and its dimensions became one of the broadest research areas in recent years. Compared to other students, most of the higher secondary students experience high levels of test anxiety during final exam even though their marks are good throughout the examinations. The study investigated differences in higher secondary students’ overall test anxiety before, during, or after test taking among gender. Differences among test anxiety components were also examined. Participants were 300 higher secondary students (162 females, 138 males) school students from a Vellore city in Tamilnadu. The coded data were entered in to Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) version 20 for analysis. Mean and standard deviation were used to describe the data. In addition, t-test was used to see if there is statistically significant difference between higher secondary students. Results of this study concluded that a significant difference between of higher secondary students towards location of school in test anxiety and further it reveals there is no significant difference between higher secondary students towards gender and type of school in test anxiety.
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