ATTITUDE OF UNDER,
A. Selvaraj Gnanaguru
M.Suresh Kumar
INTRODUCTION
Education
is the foundation stone of nation’s intellectual power. This paper aims to
study the under, normal and over-achiever’s attitude towards teaching and their
home environment.
OBJECTIVES
OF THE STUDY
1.
To study the attitude of over-achievers, normal achievers and under-achievers
towards teaching profession;
2.
To study the home environment of over-achievers, normal achievers and
under-achievers;
3.To study the significance of the relationship between
over, normal and under-achiever’s attitude towards teaching and their home
environment.
HYPOTHESES
1.
The under, normal and over-achievers have favourable attitude towards teaching;
2.
The under, normal and over-achievers have satisfactory home environment;
3.
There is significant relationship between the over, normal and under-achiever’s
attitude towards teaching profession and their home environment.
METHOD
The
present investigation was undertaken by
using normative survey method.
Sample
The
sample for the present study consisted of 892 randomly selected B. Ed. students
from the B. Ed. colleges in Cuddalore and Nagappattinam
Districts of
Tools
Group Test of Intelligence:
This
test consisted of five subtests among which two were verbal and three were
nonverbal. There were 100 questions split into 5 sections, each having 20
questions, each carrying one mark for the correct one. There were four alternative
responses expect verbal classification. It has five alternatives. The total
score in all the five tests was taken as a measure of intelligence. The reliability of the tests was calculated
by split half method. It was found to be 0.82 for the half test and 0.09 for
the full test.
Achievement Test for B. Ed. Students:
This
test consisted of 50 questions in two different parts. Part A consisted of 25
questions from the core subjects of B.Ed. curriculum and part B consisted of 25
questions from the teaching skills. Each item had four alternatives. Maximum
score for this test was 50. The reliability of the tool was 0.72 found by
test-retest method.
Attitude towards teaching profession:
This
scale consisted of 48 items with five alternatives i.e. strongly agree, agree,
undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. Maximum score for this scale was 240
and minimum score was 48. The reliability of the tool was 0.77 by split half method and 0.65 in
test retest method.
Home Environment questionnaire:
This
questionnaire consisted of 32 questions with two responses ‘yes’ or ‘No’. The
response ‘Yes’ carried a score of one and the responses’ No’ carried zero mark.
The reliability of the tool was 0.89 by split half method.
Statistical
techniques used
Statistical
techniques used to analysing the data were:
descriptive analysis- mean and standard deviation and correlation
analysis - coefficient of correlation (r)
ANALYSIS
AND INTERPRETATION
The
mean scores of under, normal and over-achievers in attitude scale were found to
be 106.85, 130.98, and 168.26 respectively and their mean scores in home
environment were found to be 19.82, 22.86 and 24.78 respectively. The mean
scores of normal and over-achievers in attitude scale indicated that they had
favourable attitude towards teaching but the under-achievers had unfavourable
attitude towards teaching. The home environment score indicated that the
under-achievers had average level of home environment but the normal and
over-achievers had satisfactory home environment. The mean score of total
sample in attitude scale was 131.69 indicating favourable attitude towards
teaching profession. The score in home environment was 22.39 indicating
satisfactory level of home environment. The computed ‘r’ value for the total sample
was 0.297, which was significant at 0.05 level.
Therefore, it is concluded that there is significant relationship between B.
Ed. student’s attitude towards teaching and their home environment. The
computed ‘r’ values of under, normal and over-achievers were found to be 0.103,
0.069 and 0.061. These values were not significant at 0.05 level.
Therefore, it is inferred that there is no significant relationship between the
under, normal and over-achiever’s attitude towards teaching and their home
environment.
CONCLUSION
The
normal and over-achievers have favourable attitude towards teaching but the
under-achievers have unfavourable attitude towards teaching. The normal and over-achievers have
satisfactory level of home environment but the under-achievers have average
level of home environment. There is significant relationship between the B.Ed.
students’ attitude towards teaching profession and their home environment.
Unfavourable attitude towards teaching and satisfactory home environment may be
the reason for discrepancy between performance and proficiency of under
achievers.