The Effect Of School Level And Gender On Test Anxiety

Abstract

This study is designed to investigate the effect of school level and gender on the total test anxiety, worry and emotionality sub-scale scores of students. A total of 550 subjects from different school levels (203 elementary, 175 junior high and 172 high school students) participated in the present study. The three separate, 3 (school level) X 2 (gender) ANOVA were conducted on the total test anxiety, worry and emotionality sub-scale scores of the subjects. Results indicated a significant main effect of school level, gender and interaction effect of school level gender on total test anxiety and emotionality sub-scale scores. The significant main effect of school level and interaction effect of gender and school level were also found for the worry sub-scale scores.