Educational achievement and level of test anxiety: a study of selected curricular strategies on primary school students

The study deals with the relationship among the academic achievement of students and the level of test anxiety by using a package of significant curricular strategies on the students selected from primary schools of Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh. A number of teaching strategies have been devised and developed for teacher's use in classroom situation to realize students to score better and take the examinations in an easy way and each of them has been shown to be effective in realizing objectives of understanding it. The significant curricular strategies that that have been used in the present study for the determination of educational achievement, reduction of fear of examinations and development of social behaviour of students are the Involvement of parents in teaching learning process, emotional attachment of teacher with the students, use of teaching skills in the class room situation, providing motivation to the students using various means, evaluating students continuously through the unit tests and proving results to students soon after the tests so that the students may be enable to know their progress. The present study reveal that the use of curricular strategies in teaching-learning programme makes significant effect on the educational achievement of students and also it helps in reduction of test anxiety in students. Apart from these factors, the democratic environment of classroom and the availability of means of recreation in the school also plays a significant role in the academic achievement of students at primary school level.