The Effectiveness of Attention Reinforcement Training on Test Anxiety of Girl Students

Test anxiety threats mental health of students and has negative effect on their educational performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of attention reinforcement training on test anxiety of girl students.
This study is as experimental that designed as pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of this research includs the all girl students of seventh grade of governmental schools in 2 area of rasht city during the educational year of 1394-1395, which 30 of them where selected by randomized multistage sampeling and placed in two group of experimental and control. Participants before and after training responded to test anxiety questionnaire that is self report instrumentation for survey of mental states and physiological experiences of person while exam, before and after it. This questionnaire has delectability validity and reliability. Attention reinforcement training was taught for 10 sessions in experimental group. One way analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data.
The results of covariance analysis showed that there is significant difference in experimental group (18/73±4/68) comparing to control group (26/21±4/75) in test anxiety questionnaire after implementation of attention reinforcement training (P The results showed that attention reinforcement training influence on reduce of test anxiety. Due to influence of test anxiety on educational performance, mental health and educational progress of students and role of attention on teaching and learning, presentation of this program is necessary.