Volume : 4, Issue : 12, December - 2015

Study Habits and Attitude towards Education of Secondary level Students of Delhi.

Madhvi Agrawal, Dr. Anil Kumar Teotia

Abstract :

<p>The purpose of this research is to investigate the relations of Study Habits and Attitude towards Education in relation to gender, area of school and type of the school of secondary level Students. The sample comprises of total 400 secondary class students, where 200 boys and 200 girls of class IXth from various government and public schools in East Delhi and North-East Delhi were taken in the academic year of 2011-2012."The Study Habits Scale" by M. Mukhopadhay and D. N. Sansanwal(2005) to measure the study habits and Attitude Scale towards Education(ASTE) by Dr.S. L. Chopra (2005)to measure the Attitude towards education were used in the study. The descriptive statistics, pearson’s coefficient of correlation and t-test were used in the analysis of data. The results implied that the study habits and attitude towards education were not correlated with regard to gender, area and type of school. Public school students have better study habits than government students. Results further revealed government students showed better attitude towards education than public school student, but no significant difference with regard to area and gender variation was observed.</p>