A Case Study Of Senior High School Students' Test Anxiety

Test anxiety is series reaction about body and mental, based on the cognitive, after the examiner's consciousness of test. As the consequence of the examination-oriented educational system, test anxiety has affected the students'health of body and mental. Many students have researched a lot of test anxiety about senior high school students. But different researchers made different conclusions which get in different time and area.In order to acquaint with the character and the actuality of the senior high school students, discover the change of their test anxiety, and provide some information for the psychological health education in school, in this research, qualitative research method is adopted to conduct case study of five students selected from a senior high school in chengdu. And after the preliminary surveys, the five students are homogeneous. Through in-depth interviews with the selected students, the researcher found the following results.First, the character and the actuality of test anxiety about the high school juniors includes that the main manifestation of test anxiety is the variety of emotion, the reasons of the high school juniors' test anxiety are that they only compare the past achievements and learning experience with present ,and have a incorrect perception of themselves because of the high demand for self. The character of the high school juniors' test anxiety includes the change of the parents' attitude ,self-seeking social support , uninterested in learning ,rational view of the university entrance examination. Second, the attitude of the parents about the university entrance examination has changed. But the parents and teachers are also full of hope to the high school juniors, and they haven't taken any measures to relieve the high school juniors' anxiety .The third, high school juniors will look for and finally find some methods for self-relaxation. for example , reading comics is considered as a good way.The forth, he classroom environment, particularly the academic atmosphere,seriously affects the high school juniors' learning.