Evaluation of a classroom anxiety scale for secondary-school students

• Authors: Milosh Raykov , Victor Martinelli

Title variants

PL

Ocena skali lęku klasowego (CAS) dla uczniów szkół średnich

Abstracts

PL

Lęk związany ze szkołą jest częstym zjawiskiem dotykającym uczniów na każdym poziomie edukacji. Aby zredukować u uczniów lęk związany ze szkołą, nauczyciele potrzebują właściwych, rzetelnych narzędzi diagnostycznych, za pomocą których przeanalizują różne przejawy tego lęku. Pierwszym celem tego badania była ocena nowego instrumentu - Skali Lęku Klasowego (Classroom Anxiety Scale CAS), aby oszacować częstość występowania lęków związanych ze szkołą wśród uczniów Evaluation of a Classroom Anxiety Scale for Secondary-School Students szkół średnich, a także zbadanie relacji pomiędzy charakterystyką demograficzną studenta a występowaniem lęku związanego ze szkołą. Wyniki pokazują, że uczniowie doświadczają intensywnego lęku związanego z testami/egzaminami i wystąpieniami publicznymi, podczas gdy niewielka ich liczba odczuwa lęk związany z wykonywaniem zadań pisemnych i zadań w grupie. Wyniki pokazują również, iż SkalaLęku Klasowego (CAS) posiada zadawalającą charakterystykę pomiarową.

EN

School-related anxiety is a frequent phenomenon that affects many students at all levels of education. To reduce students’ school-related anxiety, teachers need valid, reliable diagnostic instruments that examine its various forms. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate a new instrument, Classroom Anxiety Scale (CAS), to estimate the incidence of school-related anxiety among secondarystudents, and to examine the relationships between student demographic characteristics and school-related anxiety. The results show that students experience intensive anxiety related to tests/exams and public speaking, while a smaller number experience anxiety related to writing tasks and group work. They also show that the Classroom Anxiety Scale (CAS) has satisfactory metric characteristics.

Keywords

PL

lęk klasowy; szkoła średnia; płeć; wiek; ewaluacja psychomteryczna

EN

classroom anxiety; secondary school; gender; age; psychometric evaluation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Dolnośląski DSW. Wydawnictwo Naukowe DSW
• Journal: Forum Oświatowe
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2(62)
• Pages: 43-60

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Milosh Raykov

• University of Malta

• https://orcid.org/0000000206122872

author

Victor Martinelli

• University of Malta

• https://orcid.org/0000000201214444

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34862/fo.2019.2.3

Biblioteka Nauki

2139319