Vocational High School Students’ Sense of Self-Efficacy and Test Anxiety Regarding Biology Learning

Self-regulation perspective on motivation provides an important model to study on motivation in biology
education. Motivational part of the Pintrich’s model as one of the most studied models has self-efficacy and
test-anxiety factors as two dominant factors reflecting positive and negative sides of the model in terms of
number of relationship with other factors in the model. In the study, two hundred thirteen vocational high
school students were included and survey technique was used for examining the factors across grade level in
the study. Two subscales of MSLQ were applied to collect data. The data was analyzed by using MANOVA
and Pearson-product moment correlation via SPSS 13. The results showed self-efficacy and test anxiety
scores differed significantly between ninth and tenth graders. Again, they were correlated negatively at the
same levels.

Self-regulation perspective on motivation provides an important model to study on motivation in biology
education. Motivational part of the Pintrich’s model as one of the most studied models has self-efficacy and
test-anxiety factors as two dominant factors reflecting positive and negative sides of the model in terms of
number of relationship with other factors in the model. In the study, two hundred thirteen vocational high
school students were included and survey technique was used for examining the factors across grade level in
the study. Two subscales of MSLQ were applied to collect data. The data was analyzed by using MANOVA
and Pearson-product moment correlation via SPSS 13. The results showed self-efficacy and test anxiety
scores differed significantly between ninth and tenth graders. Again, they were correlated negatively at the
same levels.