The Effectiveness of White Noise on Test Anxiety in Elementary Students

This research is aimed at investigating the effect of white noise on elementary students’ anxiety. The research is a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and control group. The population includes all the students of secondary elementary of Bavi city in the first semester of the academic year 2019-20. Out of the mentioned population, 40 students were selected by Multi-stage cluster sampling , and they were randomly assigned to two groups including the experimental group (20 people) and control group (20 people). In the experimental group, the subjects participated in seven 45-min exam sessions of different courses by playing white noise. Data collection was done by using Test Anxiety Inventory (Abolghasemi et al, 1996), and data analysis was done by univariate analysis of covariance. The findings suggest that by controlling the effect of pretest, there is a significant difference in the mean posttest scores of the test anxiety in the experimental group (P˂0.05). According to the results, It is recommended that white noise be used to reduce the anxiety of exam students in elementary school as well as to create peace of mind in educational situations.