Effectiveness of Counsellingby The School Counsellor and The Teacher on Test Anxiety among Adolescent Students

Present study is an investigation to find out the effect of counselling on test anxiety among adolescent students by the teacher and the counsellor. Test anxiety can be considered as a prevalent psychological problem seen in today's classroom. Adolescent period as we all know, is a period of stress and strain. It is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty. Too much anxiety about a test is commonly referred to as test anxiety. It can interfere with studying, and may have difficulty in learning and remembering what they need to know for the test. Too much anxiety may block their performance. The role of a teacher in helping students’ test anxiety is challenged. The present study is to find out the test anxiety among adolescent students. Population of the present study consists of adolescent students having test anxiety. Purposive sampling was the method of sampling used for the present study. Sample size were limited to 36 with in the age of 13 and 15 studying in Govt. School in Palakkad district. The tool used was Westside test anxiety scale. The tool is 5 point scale consists of 10 questions. Descriptive statistics such as mean, median, mode, SD were calculated. t test was used to find out the difference between the significance of counselling in the two groups. The study revealed that counselling by the counsellor was found to be very effective on test anxiety among adolescent students than that of by the teacher.