Effects of test anxiety on students and academic achievement

Effect of test anxiety on students

Education is a process of change, intends to change in behavior and attitude of a child so to see this change or we can state to quantify what has been taught we need a tool which usually are tests or examination any tool can be used computer based, pencil paper or it may be by project based. Likewise specified in their investigation that at every level or stages of education test and examinations are an important tool to evaluate accomplishment, aptitude and capacities.

We are living in the society where at a very young age our lives starting ruled by the stress actually what anxiety/stress is? Anxiety means nervousness, tension, or uneasiness characterized by fear, dread, or uncertainty about something the source of which is largely unknown or unrecognized by the individual. And when we come to our academic world very first thing students are to be taught that their fates rely on the result of an examination which in return create stress and anxiety among students. As indicated Students consider exams as their worst nightmare as they prepare so well for tests but when the test is presented, they find themselves so nervous that blank out the answers to even the easiest questions. In their research also mentioned that in educational process, although the role of examination is of great importance but some students suffer from fear of examination which is called as test anxiety.  For students’ fear of examination psychologists use different terms like Examination Phobia, fear of exams, anxiety etc

Nowadays, test anxiety is more observed among students, and it might be due to more prominent role of tests in educational system than some decades ago in their study mention so many causes which cause test anxiety like comparison with peers, students don’t want to embarrass their parents and teachers, sometimes they are not prepared well and at the end students live to regret thinking that they have not study enough to perform well in test.

Students of any fields having some level of anxiety like Pure science subjects have to deal more with numerical values than the students of social science subjects. Hence former may suffer from high anxiety than later. With the appearance of new technologies, computerized testing has begun to be widespread and implemented in large scale testing. The purpose of study was to find out the difference in level of test anxiety among students of pure science, social science, engineering and business administrative students. And to analyze the difference between the anxiety levels using tools which is paper bases, computerized and project based assessment.