Performance Pressure Profile – TEC
Discover the Quickest Way to Assess Your Child’s Performance Pressure Profile with the PPP-TEC
The Performance Pressure Profile (PPP) assessment is a short online student check-in designed to help Year 6-12 students and their parents better understand how different aspects of performance pressure may be affecting learning and performance.
It takes approximately 15 minutes and provides an individual automated results profile to help identify potential areas of vulnerability, strengths, and areas that may deserve further attention.
Price – $19.95
Parents and students can attend together, or parents are welcome to attend independently.
What is a PPP Assessment?
The PPP assessment was developed to provide a broader picture of the different factors that can contribute to a student’s experience of performance pressure.
Rather than simply asking whether anxiety is the problem, a PPP assessment explores a student’s individual pressure profile across 7 key areas:
- Motivation
- Environmental pressures
- Personal meaning of performance
- Goals
- Feelings about tests
- Confidence
- Social comparison
It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
It isn’t a pass/fail test and is not a clinical diagnosis. It provides a structured starting point for better understanding how a student experiences and responds to performance pressure.
What Will You Receive?
After completing the PPP, you or your child receives an automated individual results profile.
The report provides a graphical representation of the relative influence of each area in your overall pressure profile, to assist you to target future steps.
The PPP-TEC report also provides:
- A comparison of test anxiety scores with normal scores for the relevant age and gender, to realistically interpret comparison with the average student
- Results of specific subcomponents of test anxiety (e.g., cognitive interference, or interference in thinking) that may be elevated and warrant attention
Example of a PPP-TEC results profile. Individual results will vary.
What Happens After the Assessment?
For many students and families, the automated report can provide a useful starting point for discussing what a student is experiencing.
Results can help parents and students identify questions such as:
- Where does pressure affect me most?
- Is worry interfering with thinking?
- Is confidence a strength or vulnerability?
- What does achievement mean to me? Am I linking self-worth to grades?
- What appears to be working well?
- What might I work on next?
- Should I consider seeking extra help?
More comprehensive, individualised interpretation, reporting, and targeted coaching discussions are also available from Mic. He can direct you to targeted self-help information specific to your profile from his library of YouTube videos, or provide personal coaching support.
About Mic
I’m Mic Flanagan, founder of Peak Potential Life Coaching.
My postgraduate research and training examined test and performance pressure, and I’ve spent decades working with students, athletes, and professionals who need to perform when something important is at stake.
Not Sure Whether a PPP is Appropriate?
You don’t need to decide immediately.
I offer a free 20-minute PPP Information Session where you can ask questions about the PPP and whether it may be appropriate for you or your child.
Parents are welcome to attend alone or together with their child. There is no obligation to purchase or complete the assessment.
Ready to Get Started?
Helps you better understand what happens when the pressure ramps up.
Approximately 15 minutes – $19.95
Looking for the adult version? See PPP-Adult.
Research Support for the PPP and its use
Flanagan, M. J., Putwain, D. W., & Caltabiano, M. L. (2015). The relationship between goal setting and students’ experience of academic test anxiety. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 3(3), 189–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683603.2015.1060910.
Putwain, D. W., von der Embse, N. P., Rainbird, E. C., & West, G. (2021). The development and validation of a new Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale (MTAS). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 37(3), 236–246. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000604;
Sanci, L., Williams, I., Russell, M. et al. (2022). Towards a health-promoting university: Descriptive findings on health, wellbeing, and academic performance amongst university students in Australia. BMC Public Health 22, 2430 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14690-9 (BMC PUBLIC Health
Thomas, C. L., & Fitch, S. B. (2025). Assessing the Latent Structure of the Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale in a University Sample: An Exploratory Graph Analysis Study. Sage Open, 15(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251381254
Von der Embse, N. P., Putwain, D. W., & Francis, G. (2021). Interpretation and use of the Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale (MTAS). School Psychology, 36(2), 86–96. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000427
