Table 1: Polynomial regression of the relationship between test anxiety and achievement.

Coefficients:

Estimate

Std. Error

t value

Pr(>|t|)

(Intercept)

27.982

0.524

53.400

< 0.0000000000002***

poly(Anxiety, degree = 4)1

-52.705

9.620

-5.479

0.0000000847***

poly(Anxiety, degree = 4)2

-20.139

9.620

-2.094

0.0371*

poly(Anxiety, degree = 4)3

8.223

9.620

0.855

0.3933

poly(Anxiety, degree = 4)4

20.798

9.620

2.162

0.0313*

Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 9.62 on 332 degrees of freedom

Multiple R-squared: 0.1071, Adjusted R-squared: 0.0963

F-statistic: 9.952 on 4 and 332 DF, p-value: 0.0000001288