APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
High Stakes Exams Increase Pre-Adolescent Jamaican Students’ Levels of Anxiety While Pre-Adolescent Colombian Students Are Unaffected
- Garth Lipps
University of the West Indies - Gillian Lowe
The University of the West Indies - Mona - Roger Gibson
The University of the West Indies - Mona - Kelly Romero – Acosta
Corporación Universitaria del Caribe
Abstract
The impact of a high stakes exam on anxiety is examined among 1071 students in Jamaica and Colombia. A high stakes exam increased symptoms of anxiety for Jamaican students who sat an exam but fell for Colombian students who did not. Gender and type of school altered these relationships.
Stress
