ACADEMIC ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS – A STUDY ON GENDER DIFFERENCES
Keywords:
Achievement, Academic Anxiety, Gender and Secondary School Students.Abstract
The present study is undertaken with a view to find out the academic anxiety and academic achievement of secondary school students. It was hypothesized that there exists a significant difference in academic anxiety and academic achievement of male and female secondary school students. For verification of these hypotheses, the data was collected from 200 secondary school students of Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh by adopting lottery method of random sampling by administering ‘Academic Anxiety Scale for Children (AASC) and their marks of class 9th were taken as academic achievement. . The statistical technique used was t- test. The findings of the present study revealed that there exist significant differences in academic anxiety and academic achievement of male and female secondary school students. Girls found to be more academically anxious and had better academic achievement than boys.
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