Description of the Problem
During school, students experience a variety of negative emotions such as worry, insecurity, and self-doubt due to test anxiety. Students also experience levels of discomfort in their preparation of their exam and during their exam. All these emotions hinders the students’ performance. Test anxiety is defined as the emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses surrounding the potential consequences of negative evaluation on an upcoming test or exam (von der Embse, Barterian, and Segool, 2013). It has been estimated that between 10-40 percent of all students suffer from various levels of test anxiety (von der Embse, Barterian, and Segool, 2013). Students with high levels of test anxiety perform lower on tests …show more content…
Handling the course load of college can be difficult. On top of that being evaluated of your knowledge by taking an exam causes anxiety. According to a publication in The American Freshman, healthy emotional functioning of undergraduate students are decreasing and students feel overwhelmed and driven to achieve successfully (Damer and Melebdres 2011). Due to the negative implications of test anxiety, students often perform below their ability. Upon review of their test scores, their performance misrepresents their level of knowledge and understanding. Testing plays an important role in the decision making through measuring student achievement and overall school performance. To help students manage their test anxiety an intervention should be given to …show more content…
He suggests group psychotherapy which serves an important role in this test anxiety reduction model. While students are in groups, they are able to receive social support from their peers who face the same difficulties as they do. This allows test anxious students to feel less ashamed about their struggles. In Rothman’s intervention, group leaders presented strategies for the students to decrease their test anxiety. In another study by Putwain, Chamberlain, Daly, and Sadreddini (2014), it describes a group-behavior therapy approach to the treatment of test anxiety for secondary school students. Just like in the third session of Damer and Melebdres’s study, this study used systematic desensitization and counseling procedures as a form of treatment. The goal of the authors was to change negative emotions limiting the ability of students to perform adequately. The authors developed intervention consisting of 6 sessions each lasting 30-40 minutes. The sessions discussed strategies to reduce test anxiety. They also included exercises, quiz-based instructions, practice, and video clips. The group therapy was effective in reducing worry and tension among highly test anxious
During school, students experience a variety of negative emotions such as worry, insecurity, and self-doubt due to test anxiety. Students also experience levels of discomfort in their preparation of their exam and during their exam. All these emotions hinders the students’ performance. Test anxiety is defined as the emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses surrounding the potential consequences of negative evaluation on an upcoming test or exam (von der Embse, Barterian, and Segool, 2013). It has been estimated that between 10-40 percent of all students suffer from various levels of test anxiety (von der Embse, Barterian, and Segool, 2013). Students with high levels of test anxiety perform lower on tests …show more content…
Handling the course load of college can be difficult. On top of that being evaluated of your knowledge by taking an exam causes anxiety. According to a publication in The American Freshman, healthy emotional functioning of undergraduate students are decreasing and students feel overwhelmed and driven to achieve successfully (Damer and Melebdres 2011). Due to the negative implications of test anxiety, students often perform below their ability. Upon review of their test scores, their performance misrepresents their level of knowledge and understanding. Testing plays an important role in the decision making through measuring student achievement and overall school performance. To help students manage their test anxiety an intervention should be given to …show more content…
He suggests group psychotherapy which serves an important role in this test anxiety reduction model. While students are in groups, they are able to receive social support from their peers who face the same difficulties as they do. This allows test anxious students to feel less ashamed about their struggles. In Rothman’s intervention, group leaders presented strategies for the students to decrease their test anxiety. In another study by Putwain, Chamberlain, Daly, and Sadreddini (2014), it describes a group-behavior therapy approach to the treatment of test anxiety for secondary school students. Just like in the third session of Damer and Melebdres’s study, this study used systematic desensitization and counseling procedures as a form of treatment. The goal of the authors was to change negative emotions limiting the ability of students to perform adequately. The authors developed intervention consisting of 6 sessions each lasting 30-40 minutes. The sessions discussed strategies to reduce test anxiety. They also included exercises, quiz-based instructions, practice, and video clips. The group therapy was effective in reducing worry and tension among highly test anxious