The Effect of Time Management Training on Student's Test Anxiety

: Test anxiety is a type of situation dependent anxiety that can lead to a significant reduction in the individual’s ability in dealing with tests and assessments. Considering its high prevalence negative effects on the students’ education, several methods have been developed to reduce it. This study aimed to determine the effect of time management training on test anxiety among the university students.
This was a pretest-posttest study with a quasi-experimental design and a control group. The study population of the present study included all university students who had test anxiety and referred to the counseling center of university of Sistan and Baluchestan in November 2014. Using convenience sampling method, 48 university students were selected as the sample and were randomly placed into two experimental and control groups. Afterwards, time management training was conducted for the experimental group for four weeks (eight sessions). The control group did not receive any intervention. Through applying Sarason test anxiety scale, the levels of test anxiety were assessed in both groups before intervention and two weeks after the intervention. Data were compared using analysis of covariance and SPSS version 21.
After the intervention, mean scores on test anxiety reduced in the experimental group significantly (P Time management training could be effective in reducing the university students’ test anxiety.