Skilda examinationers påverkan på gymnasieelevers stressupplevelse

Sammanfattning: This paper aims to examine which form of examination that influence the students stress-level the most and if there’s a significant difference between genders. In relation to recent studies, hypotheses were formed that the oral exam should have the highest scores of stress, that students with better score on coping should have lower stress and that girls would score higher than boys. The study was conducted through a self-created survey that measured the students stress-levels in three different forms of examination, oral exam, written home-assignment and written classroom exams. The study was made at a school in southern Sweden with 95 respondents. The results showed that the oral examination caused highest scores in stress and that girls had significantly higher scores than boys. This study can be an enlightenment and guidance for teachers in their planning for examinations to ease the students raising stress-levels.