The Effect of Elementary Students’ Attitude Towards Science on Their Levels of Test Anxiety

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out the effect of second-grade elementary students’ (6th-, 7th- and 8th-year students) attitude towards science course on their levels of test anxiety. This study will be carried out by using the descriptive method. The subjects of this study will be 145 second-grade students in Ergin Elementary School in Bala, Ankara, Köseli Elementary School in Bala, Ankara and Şehit Orhan Yalçın Elementary School in Dörtdivan, Bolu. The Test Anxiety Inventory and the Scale of Attitude Towards Science will be administered to students. The correlation between test anxiety scores and attitude scores as well as the correlation between anxiety-gender and attitude-gender will be sought for in this study. It has been found out that there is a significant correlation between test anxiety scores and attitude scores. However, no significant difference is known about anxiety-gender and attitude-gender relations.