The Test Anxiety Level High School Students and Effects of Trainings Onto Coping With Test Anxiety

Abstract

Test anxiety is an important problem ofmany students in their academical life and is adeadly serious difficulty of education success. Inthis study, it is aimed to determine effects oftrainings onto coping with test anxiety. Theapplication was performed onto students theyare studiying in a high school in Istanbul (N=1607) in an order with pre-test and final-test ofcontrol group. 34 students were in exemplarygroup and 36 students were in control group. Itis given training of coping with test anxiety toexemplary group but not to control group. Bothtwo groups were applied presenter questionaryform and test anxiety scale before aplication.The test anxiety scale was repeated following toapplication. The datas evaluated by the methods of arithmetical mean, standart deviation,frequency and percentage test, t – test andki-square method. It was determined the students in test group are homogeneous in termsof individual and their family characteristics andtest anxiety scale point, and they have no meanstatistically among themselves. Test anxientypoints of test group is meaningful less thancontrol group’s by comparing of test anxientypoint of both group students following the application. ( t= 2.294, p=0.025). The test anxientypoints of test group following the training ismeaningful less than points before the training.(t=4.385, p=0.000). There are meaningful differences of the control group’s test anxienty pointsbefore training with points following the training(t=0.804, p= 0.427). The psychological healtcare in the school is very important to take precautions for coping with test anxienty, andcarrying out the applications necessary. It isexpected that the datas obtained will be guidefor psychological healt studies

Keywords

• High school students, testanxiety, trainings into coping with test anxiety

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