Anxiety and academic performance of Mathematics learners in UM Panabo College

Abstract

The researchers aimed to determine the relationship between anxiety and academic performance among 2nd year and 3rd year BSED-Mathematics students of UM Panabo College. The independent variable in the study is anxiety. The indicators of anxiety are environmental factor, personal factor and intellectual factor. On the other hand, the dependent variable of this study is academic performance. The indicators of academic performance are interest and study habits. The researchers used a quantitative non-experimental correlation method, and the statistical tools used were, Mean and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r). The result of the computation is r- value is 0.726** whose p-value is less than 0.05. Thus, the null hypothesis is rejected. In other words, there is significant relationship between anxiety and academic performance among second year and third year BSED-Mathematics students. It implies that anxiety affects academic performance.