In the first week of class almost everyone completed the packet of personality questionnaires, and in April I passed out a feedback sheet that listed your personal scores related to motivating style (e.g., Problems in Schools questionnaire) and personality. As to the assessment of personality, you received feedback on five scores, which were extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientitousness, and neuroticism.

I recommend you take a moment here and find the feedback sheet that was handed out in class so that you can look up your own personality scores on neuroticism (and the other four personality characteristics too). To find your neuroticism scores, look under the "N" column. To interpret your scores, look on the back side of the page that provides means and standard deviations for preservice teachers.

I mention these scores because people who score high in neuroticm also tend to score high in test anxiety; while people who score low in neuroticism tend to score low in test anxiety. To the extent that this is true, you can anticipate in your own classes that some students will be dispositionally neurotic (high in neuroticsm), other students will be dispositionally stable (low in neuroticism), and yet other students will be somewhere in between. For those students who are high in dispositional neuroticism, they will be vulnerable to experiencing high anxiety in testing and achievement situations.