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Contents- Volume 8 Special Issue

Title: Reflections on School Based Evaluation: Policy Perspectives and Researches
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Evaluation is an important part of school curriculum, which aims at giving feedback to the students for improving their performance. However, there have been changes in the curriculum from time to time, this implies a parallel modification in the evaluation practices also. In India, there have been recommendations given by various educational commissions and committees, for reforming evaluation or examination patterns. The implementation of these reforms should be supported by research studies,
so that the advantages and drawbacks of these reforms can be found at a small scale on experimental basis and then the strategies for removing the drawbacks are made, such that the effective implementation of
the reforms can be done on the large scale. So, it is important to find out the role of research studies in implementation of exam reforms as given by various educational committees and commissions at different
time periods and the lacking points therein. However, critical review of the research studies in the light of the recommendations given by the educational commissions at different time periods would not only
help in finding out the good practices and loopholes in the studies during that period but will also help in developing the insight for future reforms. This paper is a humble effort to reflect on the research findings from the researches mentioned in the educational surveys, on school based evaluation in comparison with the recommendations given by educational commissions and committees like Secondary Education Commission (1952-53), Education Commission (1963-64), National Policy on Education (1986), Plan Of Action (1992), National curriculum Framework (2000) and National Curriculum Framework (2005) for exam reforms and evaluation practices.
Title: Educational Inclusion by Facilitating Access of the Girls at Margins: Exploring their Enrolment status in KGBVs of Jammu Division
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Jammu and Kashmir is one of border state of India lies in the extreme North of India which has suffered a lot in education sector since past 27 years due to armed conflict. The girls’ education has been poorly affected by the violence during this period. Besides violence, there are various other aspect like physical topography of the region, conservatism, attitude and orthodox thinking of the parents, lack of proper educational infrastructure lack of guidance, illiteracy of parents have also impeded female literacy in
Jammu and Kashmir. Girls’ education has come under sharp limelight under Sarva Shikha Abhiyan (SSA) which is a centrally sponsored flagship scheme for the universalization of elementary education.
Under SSA, a scheme of providing residential schooling facilities to the girls known as Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) has been started. It is a scheme for setting up residential schools at elementary level from (6th to 8th class) in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) for out of school girls belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC and minorities and below poverty line or physically challenged categories. Where students can acquire both academic as well as vocational knowledge. The
primary concern of the present paper was to explore enrolment status of KGBV of Jammu division and the secondary concern of the same was to find out whether the KGBVs’ of Jammu division are fulfilling the purpose mentioned in the framework i.e. educational inclusion of marginalised girls.
Title: Perspectives of University Teachers’ Regarding Inclusion of Students with Special Needs at University Level
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Several initiatives have been taken to provide inclusive education at elementary level and secondary level but no significant step has been taken to create inclusive education at higher level. After successful
implementation of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and Inclusive Education of the Disabled at Secondary Stage (IEDSS) it is high time to ensure inclusive education at higher level of education. Being positioned at the top of the educational pyramid, universities role is crucial to make inclusive education successful. One of the most significant factors regarding inclusion of students with special needs is teachers’ perspectives
regarding inclusive education of at university level. This paper has used the descriptive method to study the perspectives of thirty six university teachers regarding the inclusion at university level. The findings of the study indicate that teachers have positive perspectives regarding inclusive education of students with special needs at university level.
Title: Cultural Incongruence in Science Class: Implication for Science Education
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Science is a systematic and controlled extension of common sense where common sense is a series of concepts and conceptual schemas culturally sanctioned and considered as satisfactory for practical purposes. The belief in ordered nature that can be objectively observed with a rational outlook and
emphasis on verificationism are significant characteristic of the culture of science. Although science has been an inseparable part of all cultures, the modern science that emerged as a dominant culture in the past two and an half century is by and large considered by many and even projected by several nations as western in origin. Such delimiting of science obviously leads to sort of cultural wars specifically in the classrooms of young children. There are numerous instances where the ideas and beliefs in science are presented in the classroom colored by the western background of the proponent of the scientific claim and without any attempt to develop congruence between the universally accepted scientific view and the local views on the scientific phenomenon. Thus cultural war arises in the mind of the young learners. The mind war is even more prominent in the eastern countries where spiritualism and religious beliefs plays a major role in the life of young students and many often they find the scientific knowledge incompatible with their own cultural beliefs. The chasm therefore necessitates innovating and developing such strategies that are useful in the classroom in bridging the scientific claims and the cultural beliefs so that the students are able to better understand the universal nature of science rather than viewing it as a prerogative of certain part of the world. A multicultural perspective must be followed in a science classroom and help them in bringing cultural incongruency.
Title: Effect of Exposure to Attractive Models on Social Appearance Anxiety among University Students
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The present study aimed at examining the effect of exposure to media portrayed images of attractive models on social appearance anxiety among young adults. We also aimed at understanding the differences in social appearance anxiety, objectified body consciousness and romantic inclination in terms of romantic relationship status. One hundred university students (50 men and 50 women) were randomly assigned to experimental (exposed to attractive images of models) and control group matched for age and gender. Participants were also administered valid measures on romantic inclination, social appearance anxiety and objectified body consciousness. Results indicated that those who had been exposed attractive model showed higher level of appearance anxiety compared to the control group. Further statistical analysis showed that men have higher levels of romantic inclination and body objectification than women do. Analysis with regard to the relationship status revealed that those who had a recent break up in relationship showed higher levels of body consciousness and romantic inclination than the currently dating group and single group.
Title: Career Priority and Motivation for Achievement of Female Academicians: The Work-Family Conflict
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The relationship between work and family seeks attention within the last 20 years in relation to the significant changes that occur in the workforce resulting in changes in family structure and the nature of the work. Professionally aspiring women, on the other hand, were much less likely to choose a familyaccommodated pattern; they were more likely to choose one of the career-centered life styles. Changes to the family and the working environment are caused by both the increasing participation of women
in the workforce, as well as the growing number of married couples having dual income. The pattern of dual earning families began to replace the traditional family pattern as the dominant family model, thereby causing a shift in family models. This literature study aims at exploring this in Indian context. This paper attempts to address the challenges for career women in teaching profession and the family dynamics that act as performance constraints.
Title: Educational Rights of Children: Issues, Challenges and Solution: Journey of Independent India
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Child rights assume great significance in a civilized society because children are human beings who have rights to safety, security and opportunities for full development. Human resource is important part of
any country and it can be developed through Education especially by strengthening the basic Education. Education is considered to be the way to lead towards progress and development of the individual. After independence of India constitution guarantee free and compulsory elementary education. On 15th of August 1947 India got freedom from British dominance. After independence India got opportunity to make the system/platform to give Education to the maximum population of the country, Indians get opportunity to make modification in the previous system and their Educational policies according to the need of the country. Starting from University Commission, Secondary Education Commission, and Hunter Commission, many other policies, programmes, Acts and commissions are establish but till now Educational rights of children are not fulfilled. They are denying their Educational rights in one and another forms. Starting from the family to school and from school to society they are discriminated and denied by one and another reason. The aim of the present paper is to consider the Educational rights of the children in context of Independent India. The present paper will reflect over the pitfalls remaining in the Education system of India which could be the reasons for violation of Childs Educational Rights. In this paper the researchers will try to find out the ways and means to equal Educational rights of all the children which are to be violated in India.
Title: Impact of Technology on Student’s Way of Perceiving Information
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There are several reasons to justify to study technology and more than ever, today, it does makes sense to ponder over an imperative question i.e. how or whether technology affects the student learning perception of information in classrooms. Technology has the potential to engage students in meaningful learning, where students actively process and interpret the information through use of different technological modes such as e-journals, e-books, online libraries. In order to improve the prevailing teaching and learning process it is necessary to utilize the maximum technology based learning. Thus, keeping present scenario in mind, the current study was undertaken to find out how students can improve their academic pursuits with latest information technology materials and usage of advanced teaching-learning materials.
Title: A Study on Interrelation of Educational Aspiration with School Environment of Secondary School Students
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The present study was undertaken with the purpose of studying educational aspiration of secondary school students in relation to their school environment and to find out the difference in educational aspiration and school environment of secondary school students on the basis of locality. This study was conducted on a sample of 400 students studying in secondary schools of Kashmir division. The result shows that there exists no significant difference between rural and urban secondary school students in their educational aspiration. However there exists significant difference between rural and urban secondary school students in their school environment. Further the results indicate that there exists a positive significant relationship between educational aspiration of secondary school students with school environment.
Title: Comparative Study of Emotional Intelligence of Kendriya Vidyalya and Public Schools Students in Relation to their Family Climate
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and family climate of public and Kendriya vidyalya school students of Jalandhar district of Punjab. A sample of 300 (boys and girls) students selected randomly from Public and Kendriya vidyalya schools of Jalandhar district. The investigator had personally met the participants and administered the tool. Descriptive survey method of investigation was used in the present study. Statistical techniques of Mean, S.D and
t-test were used to find out the gender difference on emotional intelligence and family climate of Public and Kendriya Vidyalya schools students and ANOVA for interaction effect of gender, type of school and family climate on emotional intelligence. Findings of the study revealed that boys and girls of public as well as Kendriya Vidyalya schools were not significantly different on emotional intelligence sand also showed that Kendriya vidyalya students have high level of emotional intelligence and favourable familym climate as compared to public school students.
Title: Study of Environmental Awareness among Adolescents in Relation to their Scientific Attitude
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The study examined environmental awareness among adolescents in relation to their scientific attitude. The sample in the study was 482 adolescents from schools of S.A.S. Nagar, Sangur & Mansa and were
selected randomly. The descriptive statistics such as mean, median, mode, S.D., skewness, kurtosis and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that there was no significant mean difference in environmental awareness in relation to gender and caste but location had significant effect on environmental awareness among adolescents. Environmental awareness was positively and significantly correlated with scientific attitude in total group and in sub-groups such as male group, female group, rural adolescents, urban adolescent, in Schedule caste (SC) and among general category adolescents. The correlation between environmental awareness and scientific attitude among was positive but not
significant among Backward class (BC) adolescents.
Title: Attitude of Secondary School Students towards Gender Responsive School Environment
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A gender responsive school environment is one where the academic, social and physical environment and its surrounding community take into acscount the specific needs of both girls and boys. This study was designed to study the attitude of secondary school students towards gender responsive school
environment. The sample of the study was selected by random sampling method which includes 100 secondary school students of Kathua district. For data collection the investigator has used self-developed attitude scale for knowing the attitude of secondary schools student towards gender responsive school environment. The collected data was analyzed with the help of t-test. Research finding revealed that there exists significant gender difference in attitude of secondary school students towards gender responsive school environment. Finding also revealed that there exists significant difference in attitude of secondary school students towards gender responsive school environment with respect to type of schools. The study is also reflects the percentages of students having positive negative attitudes towards gender responsive school environment.
Title: Personal Competencies for Effective Teaching: A Review Based Study
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In the present scenario, management education and managerial skills are required in every sphere of life. However, the halo attached to the management education in India has sharply faded. There is a need for
change in the character and structure of management education. Teachers play an integral role in business schools to produce effective management professionals. Nowadays, there is less emphasis given to jobs as
the building blocks of an organization; instead, increased attention and focus is on employee competence. In a business-school teacher plays the most important role hence teacher’s competence becomes crucial
for effectiveness of the business-school. The research paper is a review based study identifying personal competencies required for an effective teaching in business schools according to the changing scenario.
Teachers can lend a distinct touch to profession by these personal competencies. This will in turn lead to better students and a better society.
Title: Construction and Standardisation of Teacher’s Attitude Scale towards Constructivist Approach in Teaching (TASCAT)
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The present study was undertaken to construct and standardize an attitude scale to measure the attitude of teachers towards constructivist approach in teaching. Initially a pool of items was framed by reviewing related literature, which was then given to experts for analyzing the content. After preliminary try out and item analysis was done, only items with ‘t’ value of above 2.77 were retained for the final form of the scale. The final form of the scale thus consists of 40 items. The reliability of the scale was ascertained by Karl Pearson split half method and Cronbach Alpha and it was found to be relatively high. Content validity and face validity was also ascertained. Norms was also established for the interpretation of the obtained scores.
Title: A Profile of Psychological Well-being of Student: Teachers of Colleges of Education
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The present study identified psychological well-being profiles in a sample of student- teachers from aided and unaided college of education. 100 student-teachers completed Carol Ryff’s (1995) Psychological Well-Being (PWB) scale. The present research is of a descriptive survey type. Profile analysis was applied to six indices from PWB scale: self-acceptance, purpose in life, environmental mastery, positive relations with others, personal growth and autonomy. The results show that a profile analysis shows a flat level of profile of the Psychological Well-being of student-teachers of both the groups. The study reveals that there is no difference in the mean scores of psychological well-being of student teachers of both the groups of college of education. On the basis of the items in the Psychological Well-being scale, it may be concluded that the dimensions of psychological well-being of student-teachers is substantial in magnitude.
Title: Challenges in Providing Free Education in Self-Financed Schools: Case Study of Sai Educare Vidya Pratishthan
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This paper is based on the outcomes of a case study based on a school run by a trust, i.e. Sai Educare Vidya Pratishthan, situated at Village Khalui (near Salet Godam) in Khaniyara Panchayat of Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh. The major aim of the study was to explore the quality of Education in this residential school known as Sai Educare Vidya Pratishthan meant for weaker sections of the society. One of the objectives of the study was to make an in-depth case study of selected school so as to explore the grass root realities of school pertaining to the major variables under investigation, e.g. teaching learning process, social and physical environments of school, infrastructure, daily-life activities, teaching workforce and barriers in running schools at its own. Sai Educare Vidhya Pratishthan, situated about 17
kilometers away from the district headquarters which is selected for case study. The paper reflects the state of education in this School and reveals many facts pertaining to the variables under study that have immense implications for the major stakeholders of elementary education in the area, including teachers, school administrators/ supervisors, parents, community members and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Authorities.
Title: An Empirical Study of Emotional Intelligence of Post-Graduate and Undergraduate School Teachers of Delhi
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Emotional Quotient or EQ, popularized by Danial Goleman, a much talked about term in present scenario has already proved its importance in different aspect of human life. The place of teacher as nation builder
has been very well established. The present study was taken up to find out correlation between emotional intelligence of teachers and various components of emotional intelligence. The framework within which
the research was conducted was basically descriptive in nature and the sample under study comprised of 100 school teachers (both trained graduate teachers and Post graduate teachers) from different private
and government schools of Delhi. The results showed that Emotional intelligence level of teachers’ has high positive correlation with: awareness of self and others (.755) and Interpersonal management of teachers (.757); moderate positive correlation with Professional Orientation of teachers (.539) and low positive correlation with Intrapersonal management of teachers (.163). The results also show that the teachers have low awareness of self and others and they also lag behind in Interpersonal management.
Title: Attachment and Detachment: Indian Philosophical Perspective
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The present study attempts to ascertain the importance of Eastern concepts in enhancing happiness and well-being in one’s life. The focus of this paper is on attachment i.e. state of being personally attached, having affectionate regard or attachment to a cause. On the opposite pole, is Detachment, i.e. an indifference to worldly concerns, aloofness and freedom from bias and prejudice. While both these concepts are poles apart, a balance of both is considered essential and ideal by various religions and psychologists. The teachings and principles of attachment and detachment are therapeutic in nature since they’re so closely related to emotions and guide one’s behavior. Thus, this study is in a growing line of research that attempts to draw relationships between core beliefs of Indian philosophy and happiness.
Title: Study of Interest of Xth class students towards Vocational Courses in relation to their Gender and Locale
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The present study is related to interest of school students towards vocational courses in relation to their gender and locale. Descriptive Survey Method was used by the investigator. The purposive random sampling technique was used in the study. 10 Govt. Senior Secondary School were selected randomly from that district of Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab). The samples of the study comprised of 100 Xth class students (50 Boys and 50 Girls) were selected. To analyse the data in terms of statistical techniques-Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, and t-test. The major finding of the study revealed that 57% of Xth class students have extremely high interest towards vocational courses, 32% of students have extremely low interest towards vocational courses and only 11% of students have moderate interest towards vocational courses. There is a significant difference in the interest of boys, girls and Rural, Urban of Xth class towards vocational courses.
Title: Effect of Constructive Learning Approach on Achievement in Mathematics in Relation to Self-efficacy
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The present study investigates the effect of constructive learning approach on achievement in mathematics in relation to self-efficacy. The sample of 120 students of 9th class taken from two different schools of Mohali, affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi. Instructional material based on constructive learning approach were prepared and implemented to the experimental group after pre-testing. The gain scores were computed after post-test for all the students. Self efficacy scale was also administered. The data was
analyzed statistically with the help of Mean, SD, t-ratio and Analytical Variance. A two way (2×3) Analysis of Variance was used to arrive at the following conclusions: (i) The performance of constructive learning approach group was found to attain significantly higher achievement scores as compared to control group, (ii) The performance of students with different self efficacy levels through constructive learning approach was found significant, (iii) No interaction effect was found to exist between the two variables.
Title: Study of Stress among Adolescent Students in Relation to Working Status of their Mothers and Family Environment
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The present study is about the stress among adolescent students. Adolescence stage is stage of stress and strain and emotional upheavals. It is the period which refers to the development and adjustment during the transition period between childhood and adulthood. If the adolescent get the right path and right guidance they can be proved good citizens but with lack of proper and congenial atmosphere which is being provided by school, home, society etc they may become juvenile delinquents and further
becomes criminals. Family environment and Working Status of mothers have the important role in the life of adolescents. In order to conduct the study, stress was studied as dependent variable and working status of mothers was studied as classificatory variable. Family environment was studied as independent variable. 2*2 factorial design was employed on the scores of stress of adolescent students.
Title: Issues of Inclusive Education for the Underprivileged Students in India
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The historical relevance of humanistic thoughts of Indian social and political reformers over the doctrine of the inclusive education practices is remarkably considered even in the contemporary India. Recognizing the holistic policy of inclusive education for the socially disadvantaged and underprivileged sections, the United Nation’s Millennium Development has been initiating the strategies to reduce social, economical and the global educational inequalities. Despite of huge efforts, India yet has not fully able to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the deadline of 2015. Though the policy of inclusive education as a political strategy which partially adopted by Government of India since a decade, the social and educational development of the socially disadvantaged and underprivileged students are
lagged behind and always pushed them away from the mainstream academic development. Against the backdrop, this paper dealt with an issue of the inclusive education for different excluded groups such as the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward castes, minorities, marginalized or deprived groups: handicaps, differently abled persons, senior citizens, beggars, homeless, victims of substance abuse, women, and different sexual orientations – LGBT groups. It has proposed debate and discussion for active inclusive policy of education for the excluded and underprivileged students in the light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2030 and of the betterment of the human resource development
across the states of India.
Title: Educational Backwardness of ‘Teli’ Caste in Jammu Region: Exploration of the Factors Behind
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The word Tel means oil (cooking oil) and Teli means person dealing with manufacture and sale of cooking oil in Urdu. The word Teli comes from Tel, which means oil in Marathi, Hindi, and Oriya languages. Traditionally, the Teli are an occupational caste of oil-pressers and the name Teli is given to them because of their profession of “Making Edible oil”. In old times, these people had their small oil mills known as Kolhu or Ghana driven by blindfolded oxen around the mill to make or extract edible oil from oil seeds
like mustered and sesame. Teli caste is one of the most backward classes (as per Mandal commission) in the Jammu region of Jammu And Kashmir State. Their plights were never heard or addressed even after more than six decades of independence due to underrepresentation in both the houses of state legislature. Hence the investigator felt the need to explore the area which is yet to be explored. In this way efforts were made to study various reasons behind the educational backwardness of the community and to
suggest remedies to improve their educational conditions. The sample for the present study comprised of the 15 community representatives selected by following snowball non-random sampling technique. All the representatives were interviewed to deeply understand and analyse the factors responsible for the undertaken phenomenon and to suggest remedies for the same. Community representatives revealed number of social, economic, educational factors which are collectively responsible for the educational backwardness of the community and also suggested suitable solutions or remedies for the same.
Title: Attitude of College Students towards Voluntary HIV/AIDS Testing
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The major purpose of this research was to investigate the attitude of college students towards voluntary HIV/AIDS testing. The data were collected on 200 (100 male and 100 female) college students by employing purposive sampling technique. To collect the requisite data for present study the investigator used an attitude scale towards voluntary HIV/AIDS testing developed by Vishal Sood and Arti Anand. In order to study the objectives of the present study, the investigator used the statistical technique of t-test. The
outcome of the research investigation revealed that there is no significant difference in the attitude of male and female, arts and science, boys science and boys arts, boys science and girls science and boys arts and girls arts college students towards voluntary HIV/AIDS testing. Further, the study also concluded that there is significant difference in the attitude of girls science and girls arts college students towards voluntary HIV/AIDS testing.
Title: Study of Academic Performance among College Students in Relation to Student Alienation
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Student Alienation is a condition with in the minds of human beings that starts behaving in different manner when they are unable to cop up with the social environment. The present paper is a genuine attempt to study the Academic Performance in relation to Student Alienation. In the present study
descriptive survey method was employed on a sample of 150 college arts students of second year degree course from govt. degree colleges of Jammu District. Student alienation scale prepared by Dr. R.R. Sharma
(1988) was employed for collecting the data of student alienation and for academic performance previous class result record was used. The collected data was analyzed with the help of critical ratio. The results of
the study showed that students who are highly alienated shows significant differences in their academic performance and same results were also indicated by highly alienated female college arts students of second year degree course.
Title: Mental Health: An Evocator of Emotional Competence of Prospective Teachers
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Affective domain of behavior is of paramount importance for the well being of an individual. Emotions, an important construct of this domain play significant rolein the over-all development of a person’s personality, character and general well-being. To handle the emotions cautiously and making the balance in complicated situations depicts emotional competence of a person. This paper reports on mental health as an evocator of emotional competence. The purpose of the present investigation was to study the mental health as an evocator of emotional competence of prospective teachers with respect to social category, gender and their interactional effect. The sample comprised 200 students of educational colleges of district of Rohtak in the state of Haryana. Scale of Emotional Competence Scale (SEC) by Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998) and Mental Health Battery (MHB-ss) by Singh & Gupta (revised in 2008) were administered to ascertain the mental health as evocator of emotional competence of prospective teachers. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that prospective teachers
belonging to general and reserved categories were found to be significantly different in their emotional competence where as total score obtained by general category was higher than their counterparts. Male and female prospective teachers were found significantly different at 0.05 level of significance in their emotional competence where as male prospective teachers were better than female prospective teachers in their emotional competence. A significant difference was also found in the level of mental health of prospective teachers. It was concluded that interaction effect of type of social category *gender, type of gender * level of mental health and type of social category * level of mental health of prospective teachers came out to be significant but the interaction among three variables was not found significant at any level of significance.
Title: Relationship between Altruism and Emotional Intelligence among Adolescent Children of Working and Non-working Mothers
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The purpose of our present study is to explore the relationship between Altruism and Emotional Intelligence among higher secondary students belonging to the children of working and non-working mothers and to examine the ability of emotional intelligence to predict altruism through this relationship. Descriptive method incorporated with survey technique follows to analyze the 300 sample of higher secondary students (age 17-18 years). Altruism Scale, adapted by the investigators and Bengali version (r=.79, p<.01) of the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) are used to assess the Altruism and Emotional Intelligence of the students respectively. The findings of this study indicate that the adolescent girl children of non-working mothers are more altruistic than the adolescent boy children of non-working mothers. But there exists no such significant difference between them in respect of emotional intelligence. In the case of children of working mothers similar gender difference appears for
altruism and no difference appears for emotional intelligence. Adolescent girl children of working and non-working mothers together are more altruistic but not more emotionally intelligent in comparison to adolescent boy children. Again, working mothers’ adolescent girl children are less altruistic and possess less emotional intelligence in comparison of girl children of non-working mothers. One notable point is that adolescent children (boys and girls together) of working mothers are less altruistic as well as less emotionally intelligent than the adolescent children of non-working mothers. Further, the study divulges the fact that there exists a significant positive association between altruism and emotional intelligence of adolescent children. The group with low level of emotional intelligence shows lower altruism than the group with high level of emotional intelligence. The worked out regression equation reveals that Emotional Intelligence can function as the predictor of Altruism.
Title: Academic Achievement of Secondary Level Students of Expatriate Parents in Relation to Parental Attention: A Study on the Students of Government, Aided and Unaided Schools
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The study was conducted to find out the influence of parental attention on academic achievement of students of expatriate parents. The study particularly deals with the influence of parental attention on academic achievement of students of government, aided and unaided schools separately. The sample for the study was collected from various schools of Malabar region in the state of Kerala. Sample consists of 600 secondary school students whose fathers are working abroad of which 150 are from government schools, 240 are from aided schools and 210 are from unaided schools. A self made tool was used to measure the parental attention and the score of annual examination was taken as the indicator of academic
achievement. Mean standard deviation and t-test was used for analyzing data. Students were classified into three groups based on the parental attention they get; namely high attention group, average attention group and low attention group. A comparison of percentage of achievement was done further. The study revealed that there is no significant relation between the academic achievement and parental attention among the secondary school students of expatriate parents in government, aided and unaided schools.
Title: Sociology in Our Lives: Premise and Promise
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Sociology engages with the processes responsible for ordering of social reality and knowledge in accordance with socially generated and validated concepts. It builds on a premise that human lives are primarily ‘social’ and thereby their inter-connections and interactions constitute the subject matter of a discipline which is rooted in and concerned with the human quest to understand our social world. Sociology has survived through many limiting traditions or methodological orientations and has continued to evolve in its uniquely self-reflexive manner around the questions which brought it in existence. The
urge to understand the human condition and produce knowledge which can liberate/emancipate is as central to the sociological research in the present as it has been in the past.
Title: Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Style and Learning Style with Academic Achievement of Elementary School Learners
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Learning at elementary classes is a crucial time as it lays a foundation for future learning. Yet, the universal achievement is still a far reached goal. Although many variables have been identified that hinders the low achievement among learners at this stage. In an attempt to explore how learning styles and cognitive styles affect the learning and nature of relationship these styles have with the achievement of learners. The data from the research indicates that there is a link between cognitive style and learning style which also determines the achievement of learners. The results from the data indicate that the learners having field dependents and field independents (cognitive style) have different learning styles. Since, the leaners differs in their cognitive style, therefore if an attempt is made to identify them will improve the learning. It is also argued that by supplementing the curriculum transaction with the awareness of cognitive and learning styles, the teachers can help their learners to reach the desired learning levels.
Title: Self-concept of Elementary School Students in Relation to their Social Competence
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The present study aimed at exploring the relationship between self-concept and social competence of elementary school students. The research population was male and female elementary students of Panipat city. The subjects selected through random sampling method including 120 students (60 male and 60 female students). Data was collected by using standardized tools i.e. Social Competence Scale by Shukla & Shukla (1992) and Self-concept Rating Scale by Deo (1998). The results of the study are;
most of the students are having below average level of self-concept, there is no significant difference between the mean scores of self-concept of girls and boys, most of the boys are having average level of social competence but most of the girls are having below average level of social competence but there is no significant difference between their mean scores of social competence. To study the relationship between self-concept and social competence of elementary school students, product moment correlation
was calculated. The result indicates that there is no significant relationship between self-concept and social competence.
Title: Self-assessment of Achievement: Some Theoretical Considerations
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We find Self-assessment occupying increasingly greater place in the process of assessment and accreditation of the educational institutions at national level as well as in the context of individual performance appraisal at the institutional level. The domain of student learning and scholastic achievement, however, remain outside the purview of the practice of self-assessment. Consequently, the students lack opportunities to learn the nuances of the self-assessment technique and reap its potential benefits for enhancing their learning. The present paper tries to clarify in brief the concepts associated with the practice of selfassessment, its nature, types and accuracy of self assessment and factors affecting it.
Title: Impact of Education on Decision-making Ability of Women
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Promotion of Women’s education has been one of the cornerstones of our educational policy. National policy on Education-1986 revised in 1992 took a broader view in underscoring the role of education in empowering women in order to overcome inequalities and disparities. The study was conducted taking
100 women of Bhopal city. Self prepared tool was used for collecting the data. It was found that the decision-making ability of educated women is more than uneducated women. Educated working women have more decision making ability then educated non working women.
Title: Creative Thinking of Secondary School Students in Relation to their School Type and Residential Background
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences among male and female secondary school students studying in both private and government schools having different residential background on creative thinking. A sample of 300 students studying in secondary schools of Jammu city was randomly selected. The investigator had personally met the participants and administered the tool. Verbal test of Creative thinking by Dr. Kulwinder Singh (1981) was used for data collection. Mean, S.D and three way ANOVA were calculated to analyse the data. The findings revealed that there were no significant differences among male and female secondary school students studying in private and government schools coming from urban and rural areas on overall creative thinking and no interaction was found between gender and residential background, school type and residential background, and no interaction was found among school type, gender and residential background.
Title: Book Review
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Title: Developing Responsible Environmental Behaviour in Indian Adolescents: An Experimental Study
Abstract :

The present study aimed at developing Responsible Environmental Behaviour in Indian adolescents . A sample of 260 students of class IX studying in Private Schools of Patiala affiliated to CBSE, constituted the population for the study. The objective of the study was to find whether groups taught through Active Learning Programme and Traditional Teaching Method differ in mean gain scores on Responsible Environmental Behaviour by investigator for giving treatment to one of the two groups (Active Learning Programme group) and Responsible Environmental Behaviour scale developed and standardized by the investigator herself to collect the scores on Responsible Environmental Behaviour. The findings reveal that there exists a significant difference between group taught through Active Learning Programme and group taught through Traditional Teaching Method in the mean gain scores on the variable of Responsible Environmental Behaviour.