A Study of Academic Achievement among Adolescents Belonging to Different Sociometric Groups
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https://doi.org/10.29070/r98cas55Keywords:
Acceptability, Academic Achievement, Sociometric Status, Rejection, AdjustmentAbstract
Being accepted in the class makes the students feel like they belong to the group that moulds positive qualities in him/or her. Formation of such characteristics is helpful in encouraging desirable academic attainment. A certain positive relationship more or less with the academic achievement has the Sociometric status of pupils. Besides, the academic performance of students lies massive influence in their social acceptance by the group of people in the classroom which consequently creates positive or negative emotions about the prevailing situations or state of schools. The organization participants may be rejected sufficient to cause them to accumulate undesirable character traits that are intently related to their modifications inside the college. To a certain extent, this maladjustment immediately pertains to the academic performance of college students. within the research out of which the existing take a look at has emerged, the companies of adolescent students included were the Sociometric classes of the students studying in class X, popular, left out and rejected and remoted respectively which has been tabulated, and compared in phrases of instructional success inside the normal experience and inside the boys institution and in the ladies organization respectively. The excessive quotes of sex differences had been additionally analyzed amongst the companies of students that had been popular, neglected and rejected. This research was carried on 120 students which was categorized in terms of popular negligible and reject groups of students who were detected through administration of Sociometric Questionnaire. In respect to academic performance, the researcher approached the exam In charge of the selected schools and had to ask them about the marks that had been obtained by the students during last two annual examinations (IX and VIII classes). The facts changed into later analysed using the statistical strategies viz., imply, S.D., and C.R. approach.
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