A Study of Educational Adjustment of Secondary School Students

Education

The present study aims to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between adjustment and academic achievement of higher secondary school students. All the higher secondary schools must give importance to providing counseling service to the students who are having emotional and adjustment problems. A well trained counselor should be appointed for giving guidance and counseling services. The schools must not give importance only to high achievement of their students, but must give importance to teaching to adjust with oneself and with their environment. The schools must often conduct meetings with the parents of the students and make them to know about their child's status. In this survey study, the investigators used stratified random sampling technique for selecting the sample from the population. The stratification was done on the basis of gender and locality of students. The tools used for the present study were Adjustment Inventory developed by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh (2007) and academic achievement constructed by the investigator. The statistical techniques used for analyzing the data for the present study was Karl Pearson's product moment co-efficient of correlation. The finding shows that, there is a significant relationship between emotional, social, educational adjustment of higher secondary school students in relation to academic achievement.

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