1academic Confidence Paper For Govindarajan

International Journal of Teacher Educational Research (IJTER) Vol.1 No.3 November, 2012 ISSN: 2319-4642 www.ijter.
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC CONFIDENCE AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS STUDYING IN TANJORE DISTRICT Dr.G.PALANIVELU Assistant Professor Department of Education and Management Tamil University Tanjore K.GOVINDARAJAN Ph.D. Research Scholar (EXT) Department of Education Manonmanium Sundaranar University Tirunelveli
ABSTRACT Academic confidence plays a vital and significant role in any students life. It is proposed as a mediating variable between the individuals inherent abilities, their bearing styles, and the opportunities afforded by the academic environment of higher education. Now a days the higher education has been distributed by various social and technological course and the students were introduced with all brand new inventions which affects them physically and also psychologically. So the investigators tend to study about the academic confidence of the higher secondary students. Normative survey method has been used in the present investigation. Random sampling technique has been used in the selection of the sample of as many as 960 higher secondary students studying in higher secondary schools situated in the Tanjore district, Tamil nadu, India. The findings of the study revealed that the entire sample of the higher secondary students have high level of academic confidence, also this trend is seen in respect of the sub-samples, too. Keywords: Academic confidence, Academic achievement. INTRODUCTION: Academic confidence stem from the following four sources. (i) Mastery experience (ii) Vicarious experience (iii) Verbal persuasion and (iv) Physiological states. Most of the higher Relationship between the Academic confidence and the Academic achievement of the Higher Secondary students studying in Tanjore district 1
International Journal of Teacher Educational Research (IJTER) Vol.1 No.3 November, 2012 ISSN: 2319-4642 www.ijter.com
secondary students who goes for professional degree in merit have a high level of confidence in their academics. Also, the students who scores more but choosing the arts and science degree according to their willingness have the highest confident level in their academic then the other students. Hence the academic confidence plays a vital and significant role in any students life for the better academic achievement. Sander, P and Sander, L (2006) studied the understanding Academic confidence. The relationship between academic confidence and self-efficacy is discussed elsewhere and it has been suggested that it stems from the same four sources proposed for self-efficacy; mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and physiological states. Lalage sanders and Paul. Sander (2007) developed the Academic Behavioural confidence A comparison of medical and Psychology students there was a significant difference between the ABC scores for the two groups (P<.05) in line with the prediction. Further examination of data showed that the ABC scores of the medical students as a group were more varied than those of the psychologists whilst the latter showed more variation across the elements of this scale. The academic confidence is conceptualized as how far the students are having a strong belief and trust on their academic side. As now a days the higher education has been distributed by various social and technological course the students were introduced with all brand new inventions which affects them physically and also psychologically. Above all when their academic confidence is at their highest they will have a high level of academic achievement. The investigator was very much interested in knowing the relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students. OBJECTIVES: The following were the objectives formulated by the investigators for the present investigation. 1. 2. To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the male higher secondary students. To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the female higher secondary students.
Relationship between the Academic confidence and the Academic achievement of the Higher Secondary students studying in Tanjore district 2
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To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students studying in the schools located in the urban area.
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To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students studying in the schools located in the rural area.
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To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students residing in the urban area.
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To study if there is any significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students residing in the rural area.
HYPOTHESES: The following were the hypotheses framed by the investigators from the formulated objectives. 1. 2. 3. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the male higher secondary students. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the female higher secondary students. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students studying in the schools located in the urban area. 4. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students studying in the schools located in the rural area. 5. 6. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students residing in the urban area. There is no significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary students residing in the rural area. Relationship between the Academic confidence and the Academic achievement of the Higher Secondary students studying in Tanjore district 3
SAMPLE: Normative survey method has been used in the present investigation. Random sampling technique has been used in the selection of the sample of as many as 960 higher secondary students studying in higher secondary schools situated in the Tanjore district, Tamilnadu, India. TOOL: Academic confidence scale (ACS) constructed and validated by investigator has been used in the present study. This scale consists of 30 statements, which were only positive statements. Each statement have five options, namely STRONGLY AGREE, AGREE, UNDECIDED, DISAGREE, STRONGLY DISAGREE. The response of the subjects were scored by assigning numerical values or arbitrary weights to the items. The statements were having the scoring as 5,4,3,2 and 1 for the responses from strongly agree to strongly disagree . An individual score is the sum of all the score of the 30 items. The score ranges from 30 to 150. The maximum score that one can get in this is 150. For the academic achievement the half yearly exam marks has been taken and were converted in to percentages and utilized for the computation. STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED: The means and standard deviation for academic confidence scores and academic achievement scores of the sub-sample were calculated. The r test was used in order to study the significant relationship between the means of the academic confidence score and academic achievement score. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION: The following inferences are drawn from the Table 1. In respect of the sub-samples of the higher secondary school students, all of them have a high level of academic confidence and academic achievement as their mean scores were above the average level i.e., the mid value.
TABLE 1 THE MEAN, STANDARD DEVIATION AND r VALUE OF ACADEMIC CONFIDENCE SCORES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCORES OF THE SUB-SAMPLES VARIABLE N ACADEMIC CONFIDENCE SCORES MEAN SD 113.56 127.34 19.26 16.02 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCORES MEAN SD 72.88 73.61 14.08 13.90 r VALUE 0.211 0.156 LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE SIGNIFICANT AT 0.01 LEVEL SIGNIFICANT AT 0.01 LEVEL SIGNIFICANT AT 0.05 LEVEL SIGNIFICANT AT 0.01 LEVEL
MALE STUDENTS FEMALE STUDENTS STUDENTS RESIDING IN THE URBAN AREAS STUDENTS RESIDING IN THE RURAL AREAS STUDENTS STUDYING IN THE SCHOOLS LOCATED IN THE URBAN AREAS STUDENTS STUDYING IN THE SCHOOLS LOCATED IN THE RURAL AREAS
461 499
374
119.87
20.52
75.22
11.09
0.118
586
121.27
17.85
72.01
16.01
0.231
424
121.46
20.26
75.09
10.74
0.190
SIGNIFICANT AT 0.01 LEVEL
536
120.13
17.82
71.81
16.57
0.184
SIGNIFICANT AT 0.01 LEVEL
IMPORTANT FINDINGS: The following were the important findings obtained from the present investigation. 1. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school male students at the 0.01 level of significance. 2. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school female students at the 0.01 level of significance. 3. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school students residing in the urban areas at the 0.05 level of significance. 4. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school students residing in the rural areas at the 0.01 level of significance. 5. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school students studying in the schools located in the urban areas at the 0.01 level of significance. 6. There is a significant relationship between the academic confidence and academic achievement of the higher secondary school students studying in the schools located in the rural areas at the 0.01 level of significance. CONCLUSION: The present investigation revealed that the higher secondary students studying in the Tanjore district of Tamil nadu, India, were found to have a high level of academic confidence and academic achievement which in turn gives a very low level of the below average students. So it can be revealed from the investigation that academic confidence plays a vital role in higher secondary students academic achievement. REFERENCES: Lindman, R H., (1971). Educational Measurement, Bombay: Tara Proevala Sons. Relationship between the Academic confidence and the Academic achievement of the Higher Secondary students studying in Tanjore district 6
Sander, P and Sander,L.(2006). Understanding Academic confidence, psychology learning and teaching, Vol.12, No.1, pp.29-39. Sanders, L and Sander, P, (2007). Academic Behavioural confidence: A comparison of medical and Psychology students, Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, Vol.5, No.1, pp.633-640.

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International Journal of Teacher Educational Research (IJTER) Vol.1 No.3 November, 2012 ISSN: 2319-4642 www.ijter.

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