Test Anxiety and Academic Achievement among UndergraduateStudents in Farhangian University of Tabriz

The object of this research was to study quantitatively the relationship between test anxiety and academic achievement of undergraduate students in Farhangian university of Tabriz (Al lame Amini). 130 undergraduate students (65 males & 65 females) were selected by random sampling. Academic achievement of undergraduate students referred to their result, grade point average, for the previous semester. The Sarason Test Anxiety Scale (TAQ) was used to evaluate students' test anxiety level. The anxiety level was compared with other variables gender, marriage & etc. Pearson correlation, Standard Deviation, Variance and Mean use to study the variables.The results showed that most of (42%) undergraduate students have low levels of test anxiety. Females have more test anxiety than males. There is no relationship between Test anxiety and academic achievement. Married students have more test anxiety than unmarried students. In this research sources of anxiety was identified that most of them relate to university.

کلیدواژه ها:

academic achievement ، test anxiety ، undergraduate students