The Impact of English National Examination: a Case Study of Students’ Test Anxiety Level in Vocational High Schools  

Oleh:

Dewanti, Desak Made Indah ; Kartikasari, Ika

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 792-801.
Topik: English national examination; test anxiety; vocational high schools
Fulltext: hal 792.pdf (16.58MB)

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National examination becomes one indicator of eight National Education Standards which aims to measure learning achievement of learners and education quality. There are several changes of government policy toward national examination from time to time. In 2015, schools are given more autonomy. The result of national examination now does not determine whether students are able to graduate or not to decrease the pressure. As stated in the policy of national examination, one of the factors which become the consideration of this change is students’ test anxiety (Kemdikbud, 2015). When test anxiety is noticeably high, it may negatively affect student’s ability to achieve optimum outcome of the test (Saeidi & Khaliliaqdam, 2013). This paper aims to investigate students’ test anxiety level dealing with national examination in 2015, in particular the English subject by using a case study. The research of this study is conducted in five vocational high schools in Malang Regency and the samples are 50 twelve-grader students. Questionnaire developed by Suinn (1969 revised in 2002) is adapted to measure students test anxiety level with additional criteria from indicators of English national examination by BNSP. A Test Anxiety Index (TAIN) score will be calculated by summing the scores for each item of questionnaire. The result of this study will show the level of students’ test anxiety toward English national examination. Gains will come in form of suggestions for Vocational High School English teacher and institutions to focus on indicators of which are considered potentially increase the anxiety level on students toward English national examination.

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