Eight grade students' mathematics examination anxiety

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of math examination anxiety of the 8th grade students. For this purpose, firstly an anxiety scale for math test was developed and data were collected from eighth grade students through this scale. There are some reasons that motivate this study such as not only being neglected of mathematics examination anxiety, misjudging it as a subdimension of mathematics anxiety, not varying the scales to measure it, being independece of its constituent features but also having opposite directed indicators and needed to measure to predict its effect on students. The sample of this study was 375 eight grade students from 91000 Dev Öğrenci, Polis Amca İmam Hatip, Şehit Hakkı Akyüz, Necatibey, Atatürk, Abdulkadir Eriş, Tevfik İleri İmam Hatip, Necip Fazıl İmam Hatip, Yalçın Koreş, Cengiz Topel, Rahmi Akıncı, Mevlana, İstanbul Ticaret Odası Şehit Servet Aktaş Middle Schools. In the research, Mathematics Examination Anxiety Scale was applied to the students to determine the level of the mathematics exam anxiety. Also the relations between that level and academic success both in general and mathematics in fall semester, the raw score of TEOG mathematics test and total, gender, parents education level, gender of students' mathematics teachers was examined. According to data analysis mathematics examination anxiety of students is at "often" level and that level is related to academic success both in general and mathematics in fall semester, the raw score of TEOG mathematics test and total and varies according to gender and father education level. Based on these results, it has been proposed to improve students' facilitating mathematics exam anxiety by providing small steps, success, individual speed, application of examinations based on instant feedback principles, allocating education set on child development and education for parents, inservice education about mathematics examination anxiety for teachers and individual therapy for anxius students. On the other hand, subject, method sample differentiation was proposed to researchers see and fix mathematics examination anxiety. Keywords: Mathematics Examination Anxiety, Eight Grade, Scale Development