标题：The relationship between test anxiety and educational performance among the students at School of Health and Nutrition, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2011
出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：Introduction: One of the most extensive areas of research in recent decades has been anxiety and related issues. Test anxiety includes unpleasant feelings and emotional experiences or frustration and concern in situations where a person feels his/her performance is being evaluated. In test situation, a large group of students experience widespread anxiety that negatively affect educational effectiveness which, consequently, deprives the society of a significant proportion of its workforce. Materials and Methods: The purpose of this cross - sectional study is to investigate the relationship between test anxiety and educational performance of 90 students from the School of Health and Nutrition, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The data collection instruments include Sarasons test anxiety scale, demographic characteristics questionnaire, and the students grade point average (GPA). The questionnaires were administered to participants at final exams randomly. Data were entered into SPSS software and analyzed by descriptive tests, MannWhitney test, spearman correlation, Eta and t-test. Results: The mean anxiety score of students was 12.39 ± 5.39. Among the students investigated, 56.7% had mild anxiety, 32.2% had moderate anxiety, and 11.1% had severe anxiety. There was no statistically significant relationship between test anxiety and educational performance (P = 0.97), gender (P = 0.12), educational level (P = 0.12), and marital status (P = 0.51). In the present study, a significant relationship was observed between GPA and gender (P = 0.002) and marital status (P = 0.05). Conclusion: Given the high rates of moderate and severe levels of anxiety among the students, further research on the causes of the problem and appropriate interventions (counseling, planning to address the causes, referring at-risk students to medical centers, etc.) seem to be necessary.
关键词：Educational performance; students; test anxiety
