Test Anxiety as Predictor of Academic Performance in Biological Science Examination among Secondary School Students

Test Anxiety Among Secondary School Students and University Students

“…Cronbach's alpha ranged between 0.80-0.90 in different studies (Dami et al, 2019;Maswood et al, 2019;Talwar et al, 2019), even 0.91 (Yatkin et al, 2023). In Bulgaria, its Cronbach's alpha is .834, and its Guttman split-half reliability coefficient is 0.880 (Relojo-Howell & Stoyanova, 2019).…”

“…Some other studies also report high test anxiety among secondary school students in different parts of the world. In a study among 46 secondary school students between the ages of 14-18 in Nigeria, 71.7% of them had high test anxiety (Dami et al, 2019). Among 600 higher secondary school students studying in their final year of secondary education in India, 46.3% had high test anxiety and 36.7% had low test anxiety (Goswami & Roy, 2017).…”

“…The Westside Test Anxiety Scale -WTAS (Driscoll, 2007) was used for this study. It is a selfreport 10-item scale that measures students' test anxiety because of events before, during, and after an exam on a five-point Likert scale (Dami et al, 2019;Maswood et al, 2019;Pagaria, 2020;Talwar et al, 2019). There is not any reverse-coded item on WTAS (Yatkin et al, 2023).…”