The effect of psycho-education programs on the test anxiety of secondary education students in the distance education process

Coping with anxiety is of great importance in increasing the quality of life of individuals and providing life satisfaction. Today, the fact that performance-based study results provide some data on career planning emphasizes the necessity of controlling anxiety and demonstrating talent with the highest efficiency. In this study, it is aimed to measure the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral approaches, which are considered to be the most effective approach in controlling test anxiety, in the context of psychosocial education programs. It is thought that this study will be an important issue in terms of being remedial and instructive within the scope of preventive guidance. The study groups in the study consisted of a total of 20 female students, 10 of whom were in the experimental group and 10 were in the control group, who were educated in secondary education with high level of examination anxiety. The research is carried out on a distance education platform. The data collection tool of this research is the Test Anxiety Inventory developed by Spielberger et al. (1980) and adapted into Turkish by Öner and Albayrak-Kaymak (1990). The Exam Anxiety Inventory consists of two subtests named "Delusion Anxiety" and "Affective Anxiety". In the study where the experimental method is applied, there are experimental and control groups with pre-test post-test data. Exam anxiety inventory will be applied to individuals, and the raw scores obtained at the end of this inventory will be converted into standard total scores (Standard T-Scores) according to the status of being male or female in the "Exam Anxiety Inventory". Exam Anxiety Inventory will be applied to both groups at the beginning of the application. After this step, a psycho-education program will be applied to the experimental group for a period of eight weeks to prevent test anxiety. At the end of the program, a post-test will be applied to the experimental and control groups. Pre-test and post-test measurements (The Statistical Packet for Social Sciences) will be entered into the SPSS program and analyzed. In this direction, it was concluded that psychoeducation programs in the distance education process are effective in preventing test anxiety.