Relationship of State and Trait Anxiety to Grades in Educational Psychology

Abstract

101 undergraduate students in educational psychology were assigned the writing of their own examination items. The best and worst of these items were used to compose two forms of a classroom test. The students were administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory before and after taking both forms of this test. Students tended to score higher on the good items (p < .05) and the more State Anxious students tended to have lower course grades.