ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS HOMEWORK
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https://doi.org/10.66483/evee4613Keywords:
Attitude, Homework, Secondary schools, TelanganaAbstract
Homework is viewed as school work which is assigned by teachers to accomplish outside the school time to help them build confidence and motivate them to study more. This covers a range of tasks including a time of reading to be done, writing to be completed, problems to be solved, a project to be designed or other skills to be learned. The present study was conducted to know the attitude of secondary school students towards homework of Kodimial Mandal of Jagtial District(Old Karimnagar District) of Telangana state.
The sample comprised of 45 school students between the age group of 14 –16 years (class 9 and class 10) drawn from the Kodimial mandal Jagtial District of Telangana state. The Attitude Scale towards Homework was administered to collect the necessary information.
The study found that that there is no association between boys and girls with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area; There is no significant association between Government, Aided and Private School students with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area; There is no significant difference between fathers’ educational attainments with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area; There is no significant difference between respondents’ fathers’ occupations with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area; There is no significant difference between family income levels with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area and There is a significant association between rural and urban school students with respect to their attitude towards homework in the study area.
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Title: ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS HOMEWORK
Author: SAMALA LAXMAN
Subject: Education
Language: English
Degree: MASTER of Arts
Programme: Education
University: University of Hyderabad
Department/School/Center: Education and Education Technology
Supervisor: Dr. A.S Jalandharachari
Co-Supervisor:
Batch: 2020
Registration No: 18SEME29
