Abstract:
Teaching Practice (TP) also called Practice Teaching is the working of a student-teacher in a real classroom
setting to gain teaching experience. TP is important for students’ professional development and has been
steadily gaining ground since the publication of the Coleman report in the nineteen sixties. Many student
teachers are said to experience anxiety towards teaching practice exercise which interferes with their
performance. In Kenya few studies have been done concerning student teachers anxiety towards TP and learner
demographic factors. This study investigated university student teachers’ anxiety levels towards TP with the
view for mitigating against anxieties and finding out how anxiety relates with learner demographic factors. Two
Kenyan universities; University of Kabianga and Laikipia University were involved in this study. Research
design was descriptive-correlational research design while research method was cross-sectional analytical
survey. A questionnaire was administered online and it comprised of two sections; student teacher
characteristics (demographic factors) and TP anxiety (Student Teacher Anxiety Scale (STAS). Student-teacher
factors and anxiety were determined through SPSS analytical tool. Relationship between TP anxieties and
demographic factors was determined through three-way analysis of variance (Anova). The findings indicated
high levels of TP anxiety in the category of evaluation and no relationship between TP anxiety and demographic
information availed during the study.
