The Family And Its Role In Confronting The Problem Of Test Anxiety Among Children

Abstract

The Current  research aims to  identify  the family and its  role  in confronting the problem of test anxiety among children  on a sample of sixth – grade  middle  school  students. ( final stage exams). The research  is considered a descriptive  research, as the research relied on the Social survey  method by sampling (purposive sampling ).It also  adopted the questionnaire method by distributing the questionnaire to the research  sample  consisting of (50( male and female  students to collect data  in two  private Lessons institutes ( AL Qimma and Tabarak Educational institute ) in the AL Mashtal erea-ALjedeada  Baghdad . The researcher  found that the level of students opinion regarding the mother s treatment of her childrens  examination anxiety  is very high among the research  sample , this is according  to the overall  a verage  relative importance index of (77,25)according to the approved  standard (AKadiri,2011),IT was also shown that the level of students opinion  regarding  Following  up on the mother and motivating  her to confront  her childrens exam anxiety is very high among the research  sample this is according to the overall average relative importance index  of (82).IT was also shown that the level of students  opinion regading  following  up  on the father and motivating  his  to confront his childrens  exam  anxiety is very high among the research sample , this is according the  overall average relative  importance index of (77,5) .It was also shown that the  level of anxiety  that children experience during revision and exam  times  is very high among the research sample , this is according the overall  average relative importance index of (82).also  there are significant differences in the anxiety that children experience           during review and exam  times ,according  to the gender variable in favor of (females)on average of (74,55)and a standarad  deviation of (8,50) . The research  consists of three chapters ,the first consists of two section , rhe first  sections , in which the research  focused on the methodological framework  of the research ,While the Second  section defines the concepts and terminology .AS  for the second  chapter , the research dealt with the family and its role in following up and treating  children in the sixth grode of middle  School in the first section While the second section the research dealt with family and its role in following  up on its children  and improving  their level of academic achievement . While the third section  was exam anxiety and the role of family  in facing  its problems .While the third chapter dealt with field study where the field study procedures  were laid out in the first section , the study data is presented and analyzed in the second  section .The researcher developed (5)hypotheses and they were answered through  the answers,then recommendation and sources