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Research Study – Published: December 16, 2017
Relationship between Test Anxiety and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students
Komala, A. H.
ABSTRACT
The present era is an age of anxiety; school students experience a high level of anxiety due to
academic pressure, expectations from parents, fear of examinations, competition, and social factors.
Excessive anxiety may affect academic achievement negatively, although a reasonable level may motivate
better performance.
The study focuses on secondary school students who have not previously encountered intense anxiety-provoking
situations. Test anxiety among 350 students was assessed using the Test Anxiety Tool developed by
Dr. V. P. Sharma (1978). The study identified the level of test anxiety and examined its influence on the
academic achievement of secondary students.
Keywords: Test anxiety, academic achievement, secondary students, examination stress, student
performance
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Komala, A. H. (2017). Relationship between Test Anxiety and Academic
Achievement of
Secondary School Students. Indian Educational Researcher, 10(2), 31–36.
Received: October 22, 2017;
Revision Received: November 30, 2017;
Accepted: December 16, 2017.
Responding Author: Komala, A. H. @ komalaharikrishnan@yahoo.co.in
Article Overview: ISSN: 0974-2123 |
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Published in Volume 10, Issue 2, July – December, 2017
