However, findings from new research suggest that the anxiety students feel is often related to how supportive they believe their schools and teachers to be.
The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), usually associated with testing science, maths, literacy and other skills, has for the first time published an analysis of student wellbeing.
Based on the 2015 PISA cohort, the research has involved 540,000 students in 72 OECD countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). It found that on average across these countries:
The study found that anxiety about school work, homework and tests is negatively related to performance.
The report adds: “Anxiety about school work is one of the sources of stress most often cited by school-age children and adolescents.”
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