Influence Of Type Of School On Perceived School Environment Among High School Student
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Introduction: Education is a powerful instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Education is often regarded as the potential instrument of national development. Although there have been consistent efforts made to improve the standards in educational systems yet the progress have been deficient ,according to UNESCO around 260 million globally are out of primary and in secondary schools there found to be deficit of basic literacy skills. The Indian educational system made significant changes to provide education to all the sections of society. According to the 2009 Right to Education Act, schooling was made free and compulsory for all children from the ages of 6 to 14. However, improvements are slow in being implemented and disadvantaged children may still not have adequate access to education.
Objectives: to measure the difference in the perceived school environment among Private, Aided and Government Higher Secondary students.
Methods: The hypothesis of the study was there will be significant influence of type of school on perceived school environment among high school students. The second hypothesis of the study was there will be significant influence of gender on perceived school environment among high school students. The sample consisted of 433 High school students. In 433, 144 students each from Government, and Private school and 145 from the Aided school. Purposive sample technique was used to the collect the data. The sample comprised of participants from various socio-economic status and Religion. The present study used the School Environment Inventory (SEI) developed by Mishra (2002) to collect data. The purposive sampling techniques was used to collect data.
Results: The 2-way ANOVA method used to find the influence of perceived school environment among higher school students. The leven’s test has been used to find the homogeneity of the sample. The p value was not significant and the 2 way ANOVA has been used to find the influence of type of school and gender on perceived school environment among high school stduent’s.
Conclusions: The present research shows that there is significant influence of the type of school and gender on perceived school environment.
Keywords: Percived school environment, Government and Private school, Students.
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