Relationshio Between Intelligence Level and Degree of Text Anxiety Feeling Regarding the Diploma Exam of Private Community College in the West Bank

The study problem is limited to identifying the nature of the relationship between intelligence and test anxiety of students of private community colleges who are able to sit for the community college Diploma Examination (comprehensive ) diploma at the end of the scholastic year 1993/1994, and inquiring about the influence upon the feeling of test anxiety by the two variables of the study i.e. sex ( male and female ) and academic streams (scientific and literary) . The study aimed at achieving the following objectives: 1- Identifying the strength of the correlation and its direction between the two variables of sex and academic streams and the degree of intelligence or the degree of feeling of test anxiety. 2- Identifying the degree of effect that the two variables of sex and academic streams might have on the degree of intelligence and the degree of feeling of test anxiety. 3- Identifying the relation between the three levels of intelligence (high, medium, low) and the degree of feeling of test anxiety of male or females. 4- Identifying the effect of interaction between sex or academic streams and the degree of feeling of test anxiety. 5- Determining if sex or academic streams had any effect on the degree of intelligence. 6- Identifying the relationship between sex or academic streams and the two components of anxiety (degree of worry , degree of emotionality) After determining the community of study , totaling 915 students (males and females ), stratified random sample was chosen of (183) students (males and females), which included 112 males and 71 females, 92 students were in the scientific stream and 91 in the literary stream . The necessary data for the study was collected by the following means: High intelligence test :prepared by Dr. Elsayyed Mohammed Khairy for finding the degree and level of intelligence for each student tested. 2- Attitude measure toward , the test: prepared by Dr. Laila Abdulhamed Abdulhafiz , which was used to determine the degree of test anxiety of the test students and the degree of emotionality of each. The researcher was keen on insuring the fitness of both test to the Palestinian environment , and their reliability and validity. For the achievement of the objects of the study and testing of its hypotheses the researcher used the following statistical procedures and methods. 1- Regression analysis. 2- Analysis of variance(one way and two way ). 3- T-test for independent means. The results of the study indicate the following: 1- No significant correlation was shown between the degree of intelligence and the degree of feeling of the test anxiety of study subjects regardless of their sex or academics streams , significance level (α =0.05) where : F=2.300, Fev = 3.89j t=1.517 ,tcv= 1.961 r= -0.1120 . 2- No statistically significant effect was found between sex and the degree of feeling of test anxiety significance level (α =0.05) where [F=0.842, Fev= 3.8911 t=0.917,tcv=1.96 r=0. 06801 . 3- No statistically significant effect of' academic stream on the degree of feeling of test anxiety significance level (α =0.05) where : IF=0.012,Fey=3.8911t=0.108,tey=1.9611r=0.00811 4- Degree of feeling of male students of test anxiety did not change with change of intelligence. [F=1.777 , Fey= 3.09 , α =0.051 . 5- Degree of feeling of female students of test anxiety did not change with change of intelligence level 1F-1.552 , Fey— 3.11 α=0.05 1 6- No significat interaction between sex or academic streems and degree of feeling of test anxiety significance level (α =0.05) where : sex f=-0.801 academic stream F= 0.0386 Interaction F =2.003 ,sex Fcv=3.89 , academic stream Fev 3.89 ,Interaction Fev=3.89 7- There is significant interaction between sex and academic streams and degree of Intelligence the academic stream had an effect on the degree of intelligence , the results of oral tests showed a difference to the benefit of scientific stream students versus literary stream students, while the sex had not a similar clear effect. As for the interaction between the two, it had a large effect on the degree of intelligence (α =0.05) where : sex F=0.86 academic stream F= 23.458 Interaction F =24.154 ,sex Fcv=3.89 ,academic stream Fcv= 3.89 ,Interaction Fcv=3.89 8- there is a difference between males and females in the degree of emotionality for the benefit of females (α =0.05)where : 1t=-2.4135 ,tcy= 1.961 9- No statistically significant difference was found between males and females in the degree of worry (oc, 0.05) where : [t=0.6333 , t ev = 1.96 10- No statistically significant difference between academic streams (scientific and literary) in the degree of emotionality (α =0.05) where: [ t=0.7779 , to, = 1.96 11- No statistically significant difference was found between scientific stream students and literary stream students (α =0.05) where : [t=0.7163 , tcv =1.96.