Comparison of school anxiety and its components on the fourth-grade students of elementary schools in both traditional and descriptive evaluation systems

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Bahareh Bahman ¹ , Alireza Kiamanesh ² , KHadijeh Abolmaali ³

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: Lack of confidence, fear of assertiveness, descriptive evaluation, Anxiety test, Psychological reactivity, traditional evaluation, school anxiety,

Abstract :

This study was conducted with the aim of Comparison of school anxiety and its components on the fourth-grade students of elementary schools in both traditional and descriptive evaluation systems. For this purpose, 400 students (boy & girl) have been selected. 200 of them received descriptive evaluation and the other 200 received traditional evaluation. They were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The Philips school anxiety questionnaire was used in order to compare the school anxiety. The collected information was analyzed in descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that there were no differences in school anxiety and its components between the two mentioned groups (p >  0.05). There was a difference between girls and boys in the test of anxiety and the girls showed more anxiety (p < 0.05). There was a difference between both of descriptive and traditional evaluation systems among the boy students in the test (p = 0.01) and school anxiety (p < 0.05). The students who received traditional evaluation showed more anxiety. There was a difference between boy and girl students in descriptive evaluation in the test of anxiety and the girls showed more anxiety (p < 0.01). Therefore, based on the result, it can be concluded that the descriptive evaluation is more useful for the boys and it can reduce the amount of school anxiety in them.