IMPACT OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ANXIETY ON THE PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS OF PUPILS FROM SCIENCE STREAM OF GRADE XI

Abstract

The current study tries to inspect the impact of Attitude towards Science and Mathematics anxiety on
Performance in Physics of pupils from science stream of 11th grade of district Jalandhar, Punjab. The
study sample subjects were 220 pupils of non-medical stream of science of 11th grade. The tools used
in this study are SAS-GA(Science Attitude Scale) by Dr.Avinash Grewal and MASMSKT(Mathematics Anxiety Scale) by Dr.Sadia Mahmood and Dr. Tahira Khatoon. The study
adopted descriptive survey method in design. In this study Mean, Standard deviation, Standard Error,
Pearson’s product moment correlation, point-biserial correlation and simple linear regression,
multiple linear regression techniques are used for data analyses. ANOVA was used for testing the
significance of the hypotheses under Inferential Statistics. The researcher found that mathematics
anxiety negatively and significantly predicts performance of pupils in physics. On the other side,
researcher found that attitude towards science predicts the physics performancepositively and
significantly. Both independent variable mathematics anxiety and independent variable attitude
towards science collectively predict dependent variable physics performance. There is no role of
gender on the mathematics anxiety, attitude towards science and performance in physics of pupils.