This report offers valuable insights into the first-year students’ challenges and experiences, examining their anxieties during their initial coursework and prior encounters with assessment-related stress.
The accompanying guides offer strategies for educators to support and guide first-year university students in managing assessment anxiety effectively, and tips to assist students understand assessment anxiety and provides strategies to help them manage this.
Resource download:
Report | Understanding assessment anxiety during the transition to university (PDF, 1Mb)
Mitigating assessment anxiety in first-year university students: A resource guide for teaching staff (PDF, 600Kb)
Under Pressure: Understanding assessment anxiety – Resource for students (600Kb)
Background:
A two-year project, completed in 2018 at the University of Canterbury, to understand the assessment-related anxieties which first-year students in Aotearoa New Zealand may experience.
Resources prepared by Dr Valerie Sotardi and Erik Brogt.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)