Academic anxiety of male and female secondary school students in relation to their academic achievement

Hasan, Mohammad

doi:10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00014.3

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“…The correlation between academic anxiety with achievement was also investigated (Grover and Smith 1981, Parvez and Shakir 2014, Hasan 2016, Alam 2017). However, a study which found that success was not affected by academic anxiety; in other words, that there was no relationship between academic anxiety and achievement (Das et al 2014), is notable.…”

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Analysis of Studies about Academic Anxiety: A Thematic Review

Bülbül¹,

Odacı

2023

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The aim of this research was to analyze academic anxiety studies in the literature using the thematic review method and to determine the current trend in this field. In the research, a meta-synthesis study was carried out including 61 studies, 3 of which were theses and 58 were articles, published between 1981-2021. The studies used in the research were accessed in Dissertations and Theses Global-Proquest, Eric-EBSCOhost, MEDLINE, Science Direct, Scopus, SpringerLink, Taylor and Francis Online, Wiley, ULAKBIM, YÖK Thesis Center and Google Scholar databases. Published articles or theses about determining the nature of academic anxiety in the literature were included in the study. In the examined studies, the relationship of academic anxiety with more than one variable was investigated and it was determined that most studies focused on examining the differences based on demographic variables. The survey model was the most frequently chosen research method, and qualitative research methods were not sufficiently used. The studies examined were carried out mostly by using the questionnaire method in high school level age groups and sample groups of 101-300 people. Therefore, in order to carry out new studies with larger working groups, to examine the academic anxiety of students at higher education level and to carry out reviews, scale development or adaptation studies for higher education students are needed. In addition, there was a limited number of experimental studies conducted about reducing student academic anxiety. Survey and relational based quantitative research needs to be supported by experimental methods.

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Analysis of Studies about Academic Anxiety: A Thematic Review

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Odacı

2023

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“…It has been observed that female students tend to significantly outperform male students (Frijters et al , 2019; Whyte, 2017; Wright and Horta, 2018). Today, differences in females' and males' performance patterns are matters of national concern for many countries (Frijters et al , 2019; Hasan, 2016; Saa, 2016; Symeonaki and Filopoulou, 2017; Whyte, 2017; Wright and Horta, 2018). Indeed, males underperformance has an attenuating effect on their economic participation while educationally outperforming females might not opt for joining the labor force (Okpara et al , 2005; Rehman et al , 2013).…”

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Teachers' perspectives on factors of female students' outperformance and male students' underperformance in higher education

Shoaib

Ullah

2021

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PurposeThis paper attempts to explore possible contributing factors of females' outperformance and males' underperformance in the higher education in Pakistan from teachers' perspective. The central question of the study is what are the key factors that affect female and male students' educational performance at the university level? Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as a framework, we attempted to predict differentials of the perceived “female outperformance” and “male underperformance” in higher education. We carried out the study by employing quantitative research methods.Design/methodology/approachThe data for the study come from 253 teachers from University of the Punjab-largest and oldest University in Pakistan. We used a structured questionnaire for data collection. The analysis was carried out with the help of ANN model. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe testing results of ANN indicated 85.3% of teachers' perception was correctly predicted on various dimensions of performance differentials across female and male students in higher education.Research limitations/implicationsThe study banks on primary data collected from teachers of the University of University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Thus, the study's universe was limited to one university – University of Punjab. It is purely based on a quantitative approach employing ANN.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study have several significant implications, i.e. it makes a significant contribution to the existing body of scholarly texts on the issue of gender reverse change in academic performance in higher education.Originality/valueThe findings of this research, derived from primary data in Pakistan context, qualify this research as an original one. We also claim that this study is one of the first studies on gender reverse change in academic performance among graduate students in a public sector university of Pakistan employing ANN.

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