Math anxiety performance of the 8th grade students of junior high school

Abstract

The problem of this research is how to identify the level of students' mathematical anxiety in junior high school. The purpose of this research is to find out descriptively the level of anxiety owned by junior high school students and the difference between students' anxiety based on gender and class. The method used is descriptive quantitative study using anxiety questionnaire. The population of the study were all students of Class VIII consisting of 7 classes. The number of samples was 95 students taken with cluster random sampling technique. The research data is a statement that measures students' anxiety. Data were analysed using descriptive statistical, t-test and Kruskal Wallis. The results showed that the condition of mathematical anxiety level is in a low category. There is a difference in mathematical anxiety level of students seen from the class category. There is no difference in the mean mathematical anxiety of students seen from gender. The novelty and impact of the results of this study are, it turns out the results of previous research which states that women tend to be more anxious than men is not proven. A low level of student anxiety is expected to improve the quality of student learning.