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A STUDY ON THE HOME ENVIRONEMNT OF
HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS
P.MAHADEVAN,
Dr.R.MUTHUMANICKAM,
Ph.D.,
Scholar, (External)
Research Guide,
Department
of Education, Professor, Department of Education,
Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University Annamalai University,
Tirunelveli
– 627 012, Chidambaram
– 608 002,
Tamil
Nadu, India. Tamil
Nadu, India.
Abstract
The present study is entitled as “A study on the Home
Environment of Higher Secondary Students”. 600 samples consisting of 300 male
and 300 female higher secondary students were randomly selected for the study
with gender, locality, type of management and group of study. The tools used in
the study were the Home Environment Scale constructed and standardized by
Murugeswari (1994). The results reveal that there is no significant difference
in the home environment of higher secondary students irrespective of their
sub-sample based on gender, locality, type of management and group
of study.
Key
words
Gender, Group of study,
higher secondary students, Home environment, Locality, Type of management,
Introduction
Education is meant to bring up or
draw out and make or manifest the inherent potentials of a student. Education
is referred to as an act or experience that has a positive effect on the
personality of an individual. The education provides experiences for the life
experiences through its different institutions which are deliberately
transmitted cultural heritage to its young. Education is a product of
experiences and their reorganization. It constructs the experience, which adds
to the meaning of experience, and while increases the ability to direct the
course of subsequent experiences. Different disciplines of study provide
experiences, which differ in their kind and intensity
Home
Environment
Psychologically,
the individual inherits certain potentialities, the extent of whose development
will be dependent in part on the environment during the period of growth. This
implies that function and behaviour are both inherited and acquired. Emotional influences thus have as their
basis, certain distinct factors, which cannot be fundamentally changed because
they are inherited, and others which evolve out of the home environment.
Home
is said to be the first school of the child.
Home environment is one of the most potential factors influencing a
child’s achievement. This aspect of
academic achievement has studied by Jain (1965). There is considerable evidence to prove that
parental attitudes and the nature of home-environment are important
determinants of a child’s success in reading (Subramaniam, 1979). It is obvious
that a child’s home-environment is a major determinant of those abilities and
personality traits that are related to creativity. Rigidity, conventionality and
authoritarianism are reported to, negatively related to creativity and these
are induced by a harsh, discipline-oriented conformist home-environment (Adorno
et al., 1950).
Statement
of the Problem
The problem
taken for this study is restated as follows “A Study on the Home Environment of
Higher Secondary Students”.
Method
of the study
In the present study, normative or descriptive
survey method was adopted.
Sample
of the study
A
random sampling technique was used in the selection of higher secondary
students as sample for the present study. Out of 600 samples, 300 are male and
300 are female higher secondary students.
Tools
used in the present study
The tool used in the present study was Home
Environment Scale constructed
and standardized by Murugeswari (1994).
Statistical Techniques Used
The
following statistical techniques were used to analyze the data collected from
the samples.
Descriptive
analysis – Mean and Standard Deviation.
Differential
analysis –‘t’ test.
Objectives of the study
1.
To find out the level of home environment of higher secondary students.
2. To find out the difference between
the following students on their home environment
a.
gender - boys and girls
b.
locality - rural and urban students
c.
type of management – Government /
Private
d.
group of study – science / science
Hypotheses of the study
1.
The level of home environment of higher
secondary students is high.
2.
There is a significant difference between the following students on their home
environment
a.
gender - boys and girls
b.
locality - rural and urban students
c.
type of management – Government /
Private
d.
group of study – science / arts
Descriptive Analysis - Home Environment
of Higher Secondary
Students
Table - 1
Showing the mean and S.d. of Home Environment scores
of higher secondary students
Table
1 reveals the mean value of the entire sample which is 21.84 and S.D is 4.77.
The calculated mean value is higher than the 75th percentile value
(20). Hence, it is inferred that higher secondary students are having high
level of home environment. The mean values of the different sub samples used in
the present study are ranging from 20.25 to 23.27. These mean values are higher
than the 75th percentile value (20). Hence, it is inferred that
irrespective of sub samples the higher secondary students are having high level
of home environment.
Differential
Analysis - Home Environment of Higher Secondary Student
Table - 2
SHOWING
THE MEAN, S.D. And ‘t’ VALUES OF
HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS IN HOME ENVIRONMENT
In order to find out the
significant difference between sub samples of higher secondary students in home
environment score, the investigator calculated ‘t’ values. It
is given in the Table 2. It is found to be 1.15, 2.25, 1.85 and 1.56
respectively for gender, locality, type of management and group of study. These
values are not significant at 0.01 level. Hence, the framed null hypothesis no
2 (a), 2(b), 2(c) and 2(d), are
accepted. It is inferred that the higher secondary students irrespective of
their gender, locality, type of management and group of study do not differ
significantly in their home environment.
Major
Findings of the study
1.
It is found that the higher secondary
students irrespective of their gender, locality, type of management and group
of study have high level of home environment.
2.
It is found that the higher secondary
students irrespective of their gender, locality, type of management and group
of study do not differ significantly in their home environment.
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