Table 2.
Categorical comparison of Westside Test Anxiety Scale and Perceived Stress Scale between the two assessment systems
| Assessment system | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Pass/fail system, n (%) | GPA system, n (%) | p | ||||
| Total students | 98 | 289 | |||||
| Westside Test Anxiety Scale | Low – normal test anxiety | Comfortably low test anxiety | 75 (77) | 23 (24) | 173 (60) | 33 (11) | 0.03 |
| Normal test anxiety | 30 (31) | 66 (23) | |||||
| High–normal test anxiety | 22 (22) | 74 (26) | |||||
| High test anxiety | Moderately high test anxiety | 23 (23) | 14 (14) | 116 (40) | 60 (21) | ||
| High test anxiety | 3 (3) | 36 (12) | |||||
| Extremely high test anxiety | 6 (6) | 20 (7) | |||||
| Perceived Stress Scale | Low – average stress | Much lower than average | 42 (43) | 8 (8) | 66 (23) | 8 (3) | <0.01 |
| Slightly lower than average | 7 (7) | 18 (6) | |||||
| Average | 27 (28) | 40 (14) | |||||
| Above average stress | Slightly higher than average | 56 (57) | 30 (31) | 223 (77) | 85 (29) | ||
| Much higher than average | 26 (26) | 138 (48) | |||||