ANXIETY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ASU TOWARD CHEMISTRY COURSES

Abstract

This research aims to look at the links between chemistry-learning anxiety, chemistry-evaluation anxiety, and chemical-handling anxiety. A survey of undergraduate students at a private applied sciences university was conducted. The survey, titled “Potential Interest for Students of a Private Applied Science University of Chemistry,” included 98 students from four faculties: Engineering, Pharmacy, Information Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry. Females constituted 59.2% of the sample, while males constituted 40.8%; 61.2% of the sample were in the College of Pharmacy, 19.4 % were in the College of Arts and Sciences – Department of Chemistry, 62.2% had a GPA greater than or equal to 84, and 35.7 % were in the first year of study. The results showed that all relationships were positively significant, and that the strongest relationship was between chemistry-learning anxiety and chemistry-evaluation anxiety, while other relationships, such as anxiety about handling with chemicals and anxiety about learning chemistry, followed by the relationship between anxiety about evaluating chemistry and anxiety about handling with chemicals, were less significant. But all had high values where p = 0.000 < 0.01 and there were no statistically significant differences between these variables and the variables of gender, cumulative average (GPA), faculties and years of study. The findings of the study revealed that the students, whether male or female, showed great anxiety toward the learning of chemistry and that the anxiety is higher in females.