Test Anxiety as a Predictor of Upper Basic Education Students’ Academic Achievement in Basic Science in Anambra State

The study investigated test anxiety as a predictor of upper basic education students' academic achievement in basic science in Anambra state. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design adopted for the study was predictive correlation design. The population of the study was 19,172 senior upper basic two students offering basic science out of which 2000 students drawn using random and purposive sampling techniques. The instrument for data collection was Test Anxiety Inventory TAI validated by three experts and reliability 0.74 established using Cronbach Alpha. The students' achievement scores in Basic science were obtained from the teachers' score folder. The data obtained were analyzed using simple and multiple linear regressions. The findings of the study revealed among others that students' test anxiety predicted 0.6 percent of the variance in their Basic science scores decreasing it by 0.132 with every unit rise. Also, was found to be a significant predictor of upper basic students' academic achievement score in basic science. It was recommended that continuous evaluation that may not be used in students' assessment may be conduction time after time to acquaint students with test situations and to train them to manage test anxiety. Nwankwo Glory Ure | Okoli Josephine Nwanneka "Test Anxiety as a Predictor of Upper Basic Education Students' Academic Achievement in Basic Science in Anambra State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-2 , April 2024, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd64647.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/64647/test-anxiety-as-a-predictor-of-upper-basic-education-students'-academic-achievement-in-basic-science-in-anambra-state/nwankwo-glory-ure