Anxiety effect on student's test performance

Abstract

The thesis entitled 'Anxiety Effect on Students' Test Performance' is an attempt to find out the effect and its physical consequences of test anxiety on students' performance in terms of gender and level of education, to find out the factors which cause anxiety in the test performance, to find out the relationship between the frequency of the test and the level of anxiety and to suggest some pedagogical implications related to the topic. For this purpose, the researcher selected the students of grade XI and XII from Sukuna Multiple Campus, Indrapur, Bhagawati Higher Secondary School, Belbari and Sajeelal Higher Secondary School, Indrapur of Dulari cluster. From these schools, 60 students (20 from each) were selected and two sets of questionnaires were distributed them. From the data were collected and analyzed using simple statistical tools like percentage and mean. The following findings were drawn from the analysis. The researcher found that the male students found more anxious than the female students in totality. In the analysis of level wise data males were found more anxious than the females in grade XI and in grade XII male students were found more anxious than the female students. Different physical consequences were found in the survey like heart beating, sweating, trembling, upset stomach, forgetting, illness, headache, fever etc. It was also found that these consequences hampered in test performance on the students. The study has four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter consists of methodology adopted for the study. It encompasses the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three encompasses analysis and interpretation of the collected data both descriptively and statistically. Chapter four comprises the major findings and recommendations made after the analysis and interpretation of the data for the purpose of the study.