Published Paper Details:

A significant barrier to success in academics and other academic domains is academic anxiety. An increasing percentage of students worldwide are experiencing anxiety related to science. Science is a subject that is important and required for all students in the Indian educational system, from primary school through higher secondary school. The understanding of science is constantly improving at every school level. Because of this, students who have a large amount of science to learn and who must prepare for scientific aptitude frequently feel pressured. There is a growing amount of pressure on secondary pupils to do well in science, solve scientific problems in the classroom, and prepare for school and other competetive exams. The investigator felt it was worthwhile to investigate the relationship between academic anxiety and the acquisition of scientific concepts by checking achievement in science among students in class XI. For this study, the sample was drawn from six higher secondary school students of Koraput district of Odisha state. The sample of 120 students in the class XI was randomly selected from Govt. school/college students. For the present study the researcher have used the Academic Anxiety Scale for children of Dr.A.K.Singh and Dr. A Sengupta (1984) and Science marks of each students of second term examination were taken into consideration from school registered record. The findings show that the correlation between academic anxiety and science achievement was very weakly positive.