This study is designed to investigate the effect of school level and gender on the total test anxiety, worry and emotionality sub-scale scores of students. A total of 550 subjects from different school levels (203 elementary, 175 junior high and 172 high school students) participated in the present study. The three separate, 3 (school level) X 2 (gender) ANOVA were conducted on the total test anxiety, worry and emotionality sub-scale scores of the subjects. Results indicated a significant main effect of school level, gender and interaction effect of school level gender on total test anxiety and emotionality sub-scale scores. The significant main effect of school level and interaction effect of gender and school level were also found for the worry sub-scale scores.

Keywords: Test anxiety, worry, emotionality, school level and gender