A STUDY OF THE INTERACTION OF ANXIETY AND ASSIGNED HOMEWORK ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY

Counsellors are often asked to help teachers plan classroom strategies de signed to help children with various learning and behaviour problems. Since there is a paucity of research into the interaction between various personal ities and behaviour characteristics on the one hand, and instructional tech niques on the other, it is highly probable that most of the decisions made have been largely intuitive. Among the personality variables of great interest to professional people working with young people has been the tendency for some children to have a greater than usual number of fears and worries, both fears and worries in general, and fears and worries related specifically to school work. The importance of these fears and worries to school adjustment and academic performance has been the subject of numerous investigations during the last two decades. For the most part, the results are inconclusive, leading only to the generalization (I. G. Sarason, 1960: Ruebush, 1963) that there is usually a non-significant or small negative correlation betwee