The Effects of Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation on Fourth Graders Anxiety

   The type of educational evaluation can affect anxiety among other

variables. That is why the Iranian educational system has recently adopted a new type of evaluation, called qualitative evaluation in contrast to the old quantitative approach. To show the difference

of the two approaches in impacting on anxiety, two comparable samples of students being evaluated with the two approaches were tested on anxiety and compared using analysis of variance. The results show that both female and male students being evaluated qualitatively suffer less from anxiety in comparison to their counterparts being evaluated quantitatively.

Key words: educational evaluation, qualitative evaluation, anxiety,

elementary school, motivation