A Study on Level of Aspiration of High School Students
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Level of aspiration is the estimation of an individual’s ability for his future performance on the strength of his past experience his ability and capacity, the efforts that he can make towards attaining the goal are consequences of his past experience, whether failure-oriented or success oriented level of efforts made by him in that direction, and his capacity to pursue the goal. This current investigation was also aimed to study the Level of aspiration of high school students in relation to the background variables such as sex, residential locality, medium of instruction and school management. The sample consisted of 300 high school students selected from Chennai city for this study. Level of Educational Aspiration Test developed by Dr. Yasmin Ghani Khan (1999)was administered to collect the data. Collected data were subjected to suitable statistical analysis and scores of the sample were computed. The result reveals that girls had higher aspiration than that of boys. The study further reveals that aspiration levels of English medium students are higher than that of Tamil medium students. Keywords: Level of Aspiration, High School Students, Sex, Residential Locality, Medium of Instruction, School Management.
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V. R. Rajesh, Dr. V. Chandrasekaran
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