A Study to Asses the Level of Test Anxiety among Senior Secondary School Students in Selected School of Haldwani, Uttarakhand

Abstract

Introduction: Test anxiety is a combination of physiological over arousal tension and somatic symptomsalong with worry, fear of failure and catastrophizing that occur before and during test situation this anxietycreates significant barrier to learning and performance. Researcher suggest that between 25-40% of studentexperience test anxiety. Directly or indirectly test anxiety affects the academic performance of student .Highly test-anxious score about 12 percentile points below their low anxiety peers. Test anxiety is prevalentamongst the student population of the world. Test anxiety prevalence has been reported as 10-41% in schoolage children. There are several different estimates for the prevalence of test anxiety with number rangingfrom 10-30% among high school and university students. The main objective of the study is to assess thelevel of test anxiety as measured by test anxiety scale among senior secondary school students.Material and Methods : In the present study quantitative approach with non-experimental, “descriptivestudy design” was used. The study was done at selected school of Haldwani , Uttarakhand on 110 participants.The participants were selected through the random sampling technique. The researcher used test anxietyscale comprises of 25 statement with 4-point Likert scale, to assess the level of test anxiety among seniorsecondary school studentsResult :The findings of the study show that 72 % of the participants having moderate test anxiety, 28%having severe test anxiety and no participants have mild test anxiety, when measured through the structuredtool for assessing the level of test anxiety. And there was one significant association between test anxietyand one selected demographic variable i.e. occupation of father, whereas there is no significant associationbetween other selected demographic variable.Conclusion : The investigator observed that the level of test anxiety among senior secondary school studentsin selected school of haldwani, where 28% have severe anxiety and 72% have moderate anxiety.