Study of Socio-Economic status in Relation to Academic Achievement Motivation of B.ed. Trainees
Keywords:
Academic, Achievement motivation, gender, Socio-Economic, B.Ed. traineesAbstract
The Present article focused on the relationship between academic achievement motivation and socio-economic status among B.Ed. trainees in Nalanda districts of Bihar.
In this survey type of research 400 (200 male & 200 female) B.Ed. trainees have been taken as the sample by using stratified random sampling technique. The achievement motivation scale by Pratibha Deo and Asha Mohan was used to as Socio-Economic-Status the academic achievement motivation and the socio-economic status by Rajbir Singh for the Socio-Economic-Status level of the respondents.
Statistics like percentage, mean, standard deviation-value and Co-efficient of Co-rrelation have been calculated to test the hypo the Socio-Economic-Status, the results of this study indicated that the significant difference between the academic achievement motivation of male and female also the considerable gap between Socio-Economic-Status of male and female are more adjusted than male at B.Ed. level. There was also the significant difference between the mean achievement motivation score of B.Ed. trainees having the high and low achievement motivation. Furthermore, in this study high correlation was found between achievement motivation and socio-economic-status status among B.Ed. trainees. It is expected that the findings of this study would encourage and help the teacher educators, scholars, psychologists, parents and practitioners in the process of identification and proper understanding of the academic achievement along with their Socio-Economic-Status needs and problems.
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