A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

International Journal of Social Science & Interdisciplinary Research__________________________________ ISSN 2277-3630
IJSSIR, Vol. 4 (5), MAY (2015), pp. 109-120
Online available at indianresearchjournals.com
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
AND SECURITY OF SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS
VINITA*; REEMA TOKAS**
*RESEARCH SCHOLARS, BHAGWAN MAHAVEER COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
JAGDISHPUR, SONEPAT - 131030 (HARYANA) INDIA.
**RESEARCH SCHOLARS, BHAGWAN MAHAVEER COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
JAGDISHPUR, SONEPAT - 131030 (HARYANA) INDIA.
ABSTRACT
In this present study we are discussing about a comparative study of academic achievement and
security of higher secondary school students on the basis of gender. Academic achievement refers
to a student's success in meeting short or long term goals in education. In this frame, academic
achievement means completing high school or earning a college degree. Academic achievement
may also refer to a person's strong performance in a given academic arena. Academic achievement
is commonly measured by examinations or continuous assessment but there is no general agreement
on how it is best tested or which aspects is most important procedural knowledge such as skills or
declarative knowledge such as facts. Academic achievement encompasses student ability and
performance; it is multidimensional; it is intricately related to human growth and cognitive,
emotional, social and physical development; it reflects the whole child; it is not life in public school
and on into post secondary years of working life. It is an end product of learning and its level and
performance are affected by various factors, like creatively and achievement motivation, at the time
of learning. Every human being has problems and troubles in life but they react to them differently.
This develops the feeling of security and insecurity among the people which influences very
significantly in shaping and reshaping the personality of an individual. The mental health is also
affected by the feeling of security-insecurity. A person who feels himself secured must have
tendency to accept other human being, which refer co-cooperativeness, kindness, sympathy and
sociability. Thus insecurity may be defined as emotional instability, inconsistency and tendency to
accept the worst general pessimism or sorrow. An insecure person always feels disturbances due to
various self-esteem complexes. They show more neurotic or psychotic tendencies. This study
investigated the correlation between academic achievement and security. The plan and procedure of
a research included research design structure, strategy of investigation conceived so as obtain
answer to research question. The plan is overall scheme of the research. It includes an outline of
everything the investigator build do from writing the hypotheses and operational implication to the
final analysis of data. The feeling of security-insecurity can be measured by assessing ones
responses to the basic needs with frustration or without frustration.
KEY WORD: Academic Achievement, Security, Insecurity, Mental Health, Frustration, Social and
Physical Development, Human Growth and Cognitive.
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