THE EFFECT OF TEST ANXIETY, ITEM ORDER AND TIME ALLOTTED ON STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS
THE EFFECT OF TEST ANXIETY, ITEM ORDER AND TIME ALLOTTED ON STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS
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1996
Authors
NWOSU, HENRIETTA NGOZI
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect
of test anxiety, item order and allotted time on students
performance in mathematics. The data for the study were
collected by administering two forms of tests to 195
SSS3students randomly drawn from three different post primary
schools in Zaria Education Zone of Kaduna State. Firstly
a modified Spilberger test anxiety inventory was used to
identify students with high and low anxiety was
administered. Thereafter a 50 item mathematics objective
test, arranged in two different orders - Easy to
Difficult and Random arrangements, was administered to
the students under two different conditions of time limit
and no time limit, as decribed in the next paragraph.
The students who were found to have high anxiety
were randomly divided into two groups. One group was
given the test items that were randomly arranged while
the other was given the test items that were arranged
from easy to difficult. These two groups of Easy to
Difficult and Random arrangement were further sub divided
into two groups each with one set answering the test
items under a 1 hour 40 minutes time limit and the other
set were left to answer the questions under no time limit
condition. The same kind of grouping also applied to the
low anxiety students.
Description
A thesis submitted to the Post-Graduate School, Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of degree of Master of
Education.
Faculty of Education
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
1996.
Keywords
ANXIETY,,, ITEM,, ALLOTTED,, PERFORMANCE,, MATHEMATICS