Construction and standardization of educational anxiety scale (EAS)

The present research paper has been designed to construct and standardize the Educational Anxiety Scale for assessing the level of anxiety among students. Different steps were followed to develop and standardize this scale as planning and preparation, first try-out, second try-out, scoring, item analysis, reliability, validity, final form of the scale and interpretation of raw scores. Initially, 82 likert-type items written in both languages (English and Hindi) for preliminary form covering the two areas of educational anxiety as scholastic anxiety and coscholastic anxiety were given to the 25 experts belonging to the field of Education, Psychology, Sociology and Language for further rating. In order to determine the applicability and homogeneity of the items, the 56 items were administered to a randomly selected sample of 280 school students of Haryana State. Final selection of the items was made on the basis of t-test computation. In the final draft 32 items were found significant minimum at 0.05 level of significance. Reliability of the scale was measure by Test-retest method (0.89). The scale was validated against the face and content validity. Z-score norms have been prepared to measure the educational anxiety among students.