Causal Relationship between School-Based Oral Performance with Communication Apprehension, Test Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation

Abstract

This study investigates the causal relationship between school-based oral performance with communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. The school-based oral performance is the school-based oral evaluation (SBOE) results in the mid-term examination 2017 of 302 form four students from the Putrajaya Federal Territory government secondary schools in Malaysia. It is a cause and effect relationship between the school-based oral performance (independent variable) of the students with communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (dependent variables). The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of SBOE by determining the strength of the causal relationship between the SBOE performance with communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. This is a quantitative study which is using MANOVA analysis method. Data were collected by using FLCAS. The Students had scored high marks in the SBOE. The effect size of the causal relationship had shown the partial eta-squared value of 0.106 which is considered quite large. The mean levels of communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation were low. This study had shown the effectiveness of SBOE which had proved that it can lower down the level of communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation.

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Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi, Rosnah Mohd Sham

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  • EP ID EP559563
  • DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i3/3896
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Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi, Rosnah Mohd Sham (2018). Causal Relationship between School-Based Oral Performance with Communication Apprehension, Test Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(3), 15-34. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-559563