Pre-Service Teachers’ Anxiety During Teaching Practicum on Sea Teacher Project

Abstrak

This study is aimed to investigate the level and factors of pre-service teachers’ anxiety during teaching practicum among pre-service teachers at Halu Oleo University. This study was conducted by applying mixed-method. The population of the study consisted of 13 SEA Teacher batch 9 participants of Halu Oleo University. The researcher applied total sampling to determine the sample because the total population is less than 100. Therefore, all of 13 students who have completed their teaching practicum on SEA Teacher project were the sample. The instruments for data collection were STAS (Student Teacher Anxiety Scales) and a set of interview questions. Student Teacher Anxiety Scale was utilized to gather data regarding pre-service teachers’ anxiety level, while Interview was conducted to obtain data about factors of pre-service teachers’ anxiety. The data analysis employed the IBM SPSS Statistics 24 program and Microsoft Excel 2021, incorporating descriptive statistic and interview. The findings from STAS reveal that overall mean score is 2.67 with standard deviation of 1.29, indicate moderate level of anxiety among the pre-service teachers. Additionally, findings from interview reveal that there are six factors contributing to the pre-service teachers’ anxiety which are supervisor and staff management; student and professional concern; class control; teaching practice requirement; confidence; and lesson delivery.

Kata kunci

• SEA Teacher project
• STAS
• pre-service teachers’ anxiety
• teaching practicum