title: Test anxiety and academic achievement among South African university students.
abstract: Although studies in Western and a few developing countries have indicated students with low scores on test anxiety tend to perform better on academic tasks than those who score higher on test anxiety, at this South African university no statistically significant mean difference on a test in educational psychology was noted for 121 students who scored high on the Anxiety Achievement Test and those 117 who scored low.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Foundations, University of Transkei, South Africa.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Mwamwenda
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013019:South Africa; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013732:Test Anxiety Scale / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*