“…This research revealed that female learners exhibited higher levels of TA scores than male counterparts. This finding is in harmony with almost all relevant previous studies on gender effects on test anxiety in literature (Spielberger, 1980;Hembree, 1988;Di Maria & Di Nuovo, 1990;Zeidner, 1990;Seipp, 1991;Feingold, 1994;Bandalos, Yates & Thorndike-Christ, 1995;Berger & Schecter, 1996;Bishop, Baner & Becker, 1998;Zeidner, 1998;Ferrando, Varea & Lorenzo, 1999;Aysan, Thomson, & Hamarat, 2001;Brown, 2002;Cassady & Johnson, 2002;Altermatt & Kim, 2004;Stober, 2004;Chapell et al, 2005 ;McCarthy & Goffin, 2005;Aydın et al, 2006;Bacanlı & Sürücü, 2006;Lashkaripour, 2006;Mousavi et al, 2008;Rezazadeh & Tavakoli, 2009;Önem, 2011;Karataş, Alçı & Aydın, 2013;Saedi & Khaliliagdam;Şener, 2015;Erzen & Odacı, 2014). Test anxiety and gender are significantly correlated in this study.…”