Volume : 2, Issue : 5, MAY 2016

EFFECTIVENESS OF YOGIC PRACTICE ON TEST ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN AT UPPER PRIMARY LEVEL

K. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. S. Rajaguru

Abstract

Children in the schools are facing lot of problems related to learning and other personal adjustments.  Especially the children in the upper primary level have test anxiety and achieving less in the school examinations. Teachers are trying their level best for overcoming test anxiety problems among their students. But, the teachers are partially succeeded in their efforts. Therefore, the investigators attempted to solve their anxiety and academic problem through yogic practice.  The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of yogic practice on Test anxiety and  academic achievement of  school children. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre-test, post-test and retention-test. Forty children from upper primary school were selected as sample for this study. They were selected by using random sampling technique and their ages ranged from 11 to 14 years. The subjects were divided into two equated groups (experimental and control groups) on the basis of their pre-test score. Experimental Group was exposed to yogic practice and Control Group was not exposed to yogic practice.  The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, experimental group and control group were tested on their Test anxiety and academic achievement. This test scores formed as post-test scores of the experimental group subjects. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) is used to find out the significant difference between non-tribal yogic practice group, and control group on test anxiety and academic achievement. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. It is concluded that the children participated in the yogic practice have reduced their test - anxiety than their counterparts who have not participated in the yogic practice. It is also concluded that the children participated in the yogic practice have better in academic achievement than their counterparts who have not participated in the yogic practice.

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