标题:Contribution of Student's Perception Toward Teacher's Goal Orientation and Student's Goal Orientation as a Mediator in Test Anxiety on Elementary's Final Exams
摘要:AbstractTest anxiety has become a problem in education. Its impact can be detrimental; it can even threat students to fail in academic area. Goal orientation is the purpose of individual to engage in activities and achievement. In the classroom teacher has goal to create learning activities so that students get the expected achievement, this is called teachers’ goal orientation which will be perceived by students and later influence student personal goal orientation. This research is aimed to see the contribution of student's perception toward teacher goal orientation and student's goal orientation as a mediator in test anxiety on elementary student's final exams. Subject were 190 students of 6th grade elementary level at south district of Jakarta Indonesia. The result shows that the performance goal orientation is positively and directly and indirectly related through student's goal orientation that serves as a mediator with test anxiety. Whereas, student's perception about mastery goal orientation and work avoidance are negatively related, directly or indirectly, through student goal orientation with test anxiety. The result suggested applying mastery teacher's goal orientation in the classroom so that student can adopt goal orientation and it will expect to reduce test anxiety.