The effect of time management training on test anxiety and academic achievement motivation among high school students

The present study is designed to identify the effect of time management training on test anxiety and academic achievement motivation among the first grade high school girls in Hamadan city. This study has been conducted on the basis of experiment through a pretest-posttest plan and a control group. The research population included all first grade high school girls in Hamadan (3734 students). Sixty of research population had been randomly chosen based on their ranking after the implementation of the questionnaires namely: Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) and Inventory of School Motivation (ISM). They were randomly assigned to an experimental (n=30) and a control groups (n=30). The experimental group received time management training for 10 sessions, but the control group did not received any intervention. After the sessions, the students were given posttest questionnaires and the data have been analyzed using covariance analysis method and Pearson correlation. Findings showed that time management training leads to reducing test anxiety and increases student's academic achievement motivation. There was a negative relationship between test anxiety and student's academic achievement motivation, and the effect of time management training on test anxiety was more than the effect of academic achievement motivation.