Influence of Test Anxiety on Performance Levels on Numerical tasks of Secondary School Physics Students

In: Academic leadership

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to identify teacher behaviors that secondary students perceivedas demonstrating caring. The questions that guided this inquiry were (a) what teacher behaviors dohigh school students perceive as caring? and (b) what teacher behaviors do high school studentsperceive as the most important aspects of caring? Whereas previous studies clearly have documentedthe power and influence of caring teachers on adolescents' success, we posit that knowing whatstudents perceive as caring behaviors can be used as a springboard to shape the context of caring forall students, especially those who are marginalized, feel disenfranchised, and most at risk of droppingout of school.