A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (1)

September 2012 Volume 1 Issue IV ISSN:2277-1255 BHARTIYAM INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION & RESEARCH

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS IN

RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Mukesh KumarAssociate Professor, Deen Dayal Rustagi College Of Education, VPO Khandela Dist. Gurgaon

Haryana 123504 India

AbstractThe present study emphasized the importance of parental encouragement in development of

child. The finding of the study are expected to be helpful in providing guidelines to the teachers

and parents. It emprises the importance of parenting in the development of children. Since the

present study aims at finding the nature of relationship between parental encouragement and

academic achievement of senior secondary students. It would be great interest to them to chem.

Up their motivational process and to help them in their academic excellence. Children need

security and feeling of confidence that comes from parents Side. Encouragement and motivation

given by parents helps the child in achieving higher goals and in shaping the dusting. Finding of

this study will throw light on these factors. Which affect parental encouragement this would be

further of great help to the parents to understand how to monitor their children’s behaviors. The

study mainly aims at how parents attitude. Motivation and support in related with children’s

academic achievement.

God is the supreme power in this world. There is noting beyond the eternal power. He has made

this universe so beautiful. Parents are the best creation of that creator. Parents are God. In the

Lap of their Parents. Children forget every suffering pain and grief of this world. Every child

fells protected in the Lap of their parents. Children need security and feeling of confidence that

comes from parental faith. Every successful person after reaching his destination finds that his

success is because of the held of his parents. He always finds their hands on his head. When he

looks back at his path of life he finds that it was the support and encouragement of parents that

gave him strength to achieve his goal. When we open ‘history books’ they shine like the sun of

the sky of this world. Every great man and child has encouragement of their country. They say

“Destroy! The enemy of your mother India so that the forehead of your mother Indian always

raise high” Parents can help effectively in preparing the next generation of Adults for their place

in the world by strengthening their children. It is the influence of parents that make a

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considerable impact on all round develop these interests. Their interest’s aspirations, personality

development and academic achievement of the children. Parental encouragement is one of the

aspects of parents treatment patterns. In encouragement, the parents help the child, guide him

and coax him so that the may not feel disheartened the entire treatment may have many

invidiously traits. But their contents and directions are the same to give encouragement to the

child. It may be in the form of approval or it may be in the form of asking the child to modify his

behavior. In case it creates avoidance behavior in the child that accounts to discouragement.

Parental encouragement is of great significance in developing psychological as well as academic

behaviour, of a child. The present day society is based on competition in which everyone has

tendency to perform as perfectly as possible. And here motivation encouragement and support of

parents make him more confident and optimistic. Present time expects from pupils to have high

seniority, discrimination ability and superior excellence through education. To cope with these

demands our education system should develop a spirit of competition and excellence amongst

adolescents in this era of ‘achievement race’ this race is bounded to have winner and losers in it.

In this context every individual has instinctive wish to achieve high academic achievement and

represent himself as a winner of achievement race. The emphasis by both parents and society in

on high academic attainment of child and those who got it, would got it, would get recognition in

a great extent by them. Generally this distinctive ability to become a winner is omnipresent in

each individual of society. Academic achievement differs from this fact as baffling the educators

and psychologists, i.e. why do some students succeed in schools and other’s do not? To answer

this question psychologists suggest, there is energy besides the initiative ability which alter

academic achievement of students. They termed it is ‘Encouragement’ the amount of parents

interest encouragement are obviously crucial factors in the Childs progress, psychologists

educators and sociologists all agree that family is the most significant influence on the

development of the child. No parents are well aware of this situation and so want their lives. The

child’s achievement and success in formal education. System depends upon the encouragement

level that comes from parents side. Parents should be aware of the child’s progress in the school

through their reports and other contacting with teachers when children are aware that their

parents are taking interest in their studies it is quite possible that they would also be more

concerned for their education. Some recent studies have shown that and encouragement is

positively related to due educational plans of the students and is considered a critical factor in the

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child’s development. Many parents express dissatisfaction when their child in not at the top.

Often setting high goal brings about discourage both in the child and in the parents. When the

goals are beyond normal expectation. The situation is constructed so that the continual

discouragement in inevitable. If the child has an intelligence of talent to achieve a measure of

success he may find a precarious satisfaction in feeling admiration at home. But he can rarely

relax because of fear of losing approval. It may make students feel frustrated or inferior. In the

development of child, Parents attitude. Condition and treatment given by them play an important

role in child developmental scale. And for adolescent pupils academic achievement is primary

factor of personality development. In this context we can say that parental encouragement may

influence academic achievement of a pupil. The present study aims at findings the relationship

between parental encouragement and academic achievement of senior secondary schools

students.

Statement of this problem

The problem of the study is stated as :-

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT BETWEEN

ART AND SCIENCE SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.

Objective

1. To study the parental encouragement of Art senior secondary students.

2. To study the parental encouragement of science senior secondary students.

3. To compare the parental encouragement of art and science senior secondary students.

4. To study the academic Achievement of Art senior secondary student’s.

5. To study the academic Achievement of Science senior secondary students.

6. To compare the Academic Achievement of Art and science senior secondary students.

7. To study the relationship between the parental encourage meant and academic

Achievement of Art senior secondary students.

8. To study the relationship between parental encouragement and achievement of science

senior secondary students.

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9. To compare the relationship between parental encouragement and academic achievement

of Art and science senior secondary students.

1.5 Hypothesis

1. There is no significant relationship of parental encouragement and academic achievement

or Art senior secondary students.

2. There no significant relationship between parental encouragement and academic

achievement of science senior secondary students.

3. There no significant difference between parental encourage of Art and science senior

secondary students.

4. There no significant difference between academic achievement of art and science senior

secondary students.

1.6 Sample : Purposive sampling has been done in this study the sample of this study’s

consists of 100 student. 50 arts senior secondary student and 50 science senior secondary

students. They were selected randomly two senior secondary schools of Haily Mandi are

an affiliated Haryana board.

1.7 Method : The study employed descriptive survey method of research to find out the

difference in parental encouragement of Art and science senior secondary student in

relation to their academic achievement.

1.8 Tool used : The following tools have been used in the Study:

1. Parental encouragement the researcher used the parental encouragement scale (PES)

for the present study this parental encouragement scale is prepared by R.R. Sharma

Reader in Education, Gauhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwali in 1988 and is

published by national psychological corporation. It measures the degree of parental

Encouragement which a child receives from his parents. The prenatal encouragement

scale can be administered individually as well as in group. There is no time limit for

the completion of the scale; however, ordinarily an individual student take 25 to

minutes to complete it.

1. Academic Achievement – While conducting parental encouragement test, the

investigator will ask the students about their marks obtained in metric (X) those who

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could not retain in their marks will be obtained from the academic records available

in their institution.

Analysis and Interpretation of data. The statistical techniques like mean, S.D. and (t) value

were used to analysis and interpret the data.

Delimitation of the study

1. The study is confined to senior secondary school of Haily Mandi.

2. The sample of study is limited to 100 students. 50 Arts and 50 science senior

secondary students.

3. The Students are taken from two senior secondary schools of Haryana Board.

Variable : In the Present study the Primary variables studies are :-

(i) Parental encouragement:- (Independent variable)

(ii) Academic Achievement (Dependant Variable)

(i) Area- 50 Students of Art and 50 student of science senior secondary schools for

comparison of Parental encouragement and academic achievement.

Selection of tools:- The selection of tools of very important in research. All though there are

variable tools to collect information. Form the review of related Literature the investigator come

review of Related Literature the investigator came to know that most of the researchers used

questionnaire and interview as tools for collecting the data. The parental encouragement scale

developed by urinal and Aggarwal (1982) and Sharma and Rajput lacked wide coverage in both

some of the significant aspects of encouragement has been ignored. So at last the researcher

found R.R Sharma’s Parental encouragement scale quite suitable for this study.

R.R. Sharma’s Parental encouragement to measure the degree of parental encouragement

between are and science senior secondary students. Students marks obtained in metric

examination to measure their academic achievement.

3.7 Selection of the Sample. The total sample for the study comprises 100 students from

two senior secondary school. 50 students have been taken from each school in

Gurgaon Distt. The following tables shows the sample taken from the schools:-

Sr. No. Name of the school No. of students

1. Govt. Girls. Sec. School 50

2. M.L.A. Senior secondary school

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The age range of the students was 16+ to 17+ after collecting the Primary data

through these different Performa’s a number of statistical techniques have been applied for

its analysis. E.g. the use of mean, standard deviation t-value tests etc.

TABLE 1. THE TABLE SHOWS THE PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF

ART AND SCIENCE SECONDARY STUDENTS.Variables Mean S.D ‘t’ Value

Art (50) 65.32 8.09

0.60Science (50) 64.32 7.98

65.32

Mean

8.09 7.98

S.D.

Art (50)

Science

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

64.32

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In this table the mean score of Art students is 65.32 and of science students if 64.32 and the

obtained calculated difference between the mean score of Art and science students is 1.00. It

shows that parental encouragement of Art students is better than the science students. The

standard deviation of the Art students. The standard deviation of the Art students is 8.09 and of

science student is 7.98 The obtained t- value is calculated to be 0.60. So the null hypothesis is

accepted. There is no significant difference in parental encouragement of science and art senior

secondary students.

TABLE 2.THE TABLE SHOWS THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ART

AND SCIENC SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS. ACADEMIC

ACHIEVEMENTVariables Mean S.D ‘t’ Value

Art Students 6.54 6.92

3.58Science Students 70.6 16.46

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In this table the mean score of Art students is 61.54 and the mean score of science students

is 70.06 so the obtained calculated difference between them is 08.52.It shows mean score of

Academic Achievement at science students is more than the art students. The Academic

Achievement of Art students is less then the science students.

The ‘t’ Value is calculated to be 3.58 to be 3.58. and the Table value at 0.05 is 1.98 and

0.01 is 2.63, which is less than the obtained value. Hence hypothesis is rejected at both levels.

There is significant difference in the academic achievement of art and science senior secondary

students.

TABLE 3. THE TABLE SHOWS THE CO-RELATION OF ART SENIOR SECONDARY

STUDENT OF PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT IN RELATION TO THEIR

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTArt Students Mean S.D Co-relation

PARENTAL

ENCOURAGEMENT

65.32 8.09

0.18

ACADEMIC

ACHIEVEMENT

61.54 6.92

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In this table the mean score of Art Senior secondary students is 65.32 and the mean

score of Academic Achievement is 61.54 and the Calculation difference between means of

Academic Achievement and parental encouragement is 3.78 the parental encouragement of

the Art students is more than the academic Achievement. It show that the is low positively

co-relation between the parental encouragement and academic achievement of Art senior

secondary students there is difference between the parental encouragement and academic

achievement of the Art senior secondary students.

TABLE 4. THE TABLE SHOWS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL

ENCOURAGEMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTOF SCIENCE SENIOR

SECONDARY

STUDENTSArt Students Mean S.D Co-relation

ACADEMIC

ACHIEVEMENT

70.6 16.46

0.00

PARENTALENCOURAGEMENT

64.32 7.98

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70.6

Mean

6.92

7.98

S.D.

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

64.32

PARENTAL ENCOURGEMENT

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT


In this table the mean score of Academic Achievement of science students is 70.6 and the

mean score of parental encouragement is 64.32. The obtained calculated difference between the

parental encouragement and academic achievement of science students is 6.26. The co-operation

between the parental encouragement and academic achievement of the science students is 0.00.

There is negligible co-relation between the parental encouragement and academic achievement

of science senior secondary students.

Findings: In this investigation the researcher proposed to make a comparative study of the

parent tall encouragement between art and science senior secondary student in relation to their

academic achievement scale (PES) by R.R. Sharma and cores of a cadmic achievement in 10th

class were taken the study was conducted on the sample of 100 students of Haily Mandi suitable

technique data was analyzed and Interpreted. The statistical analysis of data present in the tables

of previous chapter helped in testing the various hypothesis formulated to realize the objective of

the study. The important findings are given below.

1. There is no co-relation of parental encouragement science senior secondary students in

relation to their academic achievement.

2. There is low positively co-relation of parental encouragement of Art senior secondary

students in relation to their academic achievement.

3. There is significant difference in the academic achievement of art and science senior

secondary students. Because science students shows better result than the Art students.

4. There is no significant difference in parental encouragement of Art science senior

secondary students.

Conclusion

From this finding we come know that there is no significance difference of the parental

encouragement of Art and science students. There is no effect of parental encouragement of

science students and arts students.

But the academic achievement of the science students is higher then the cadmic

achievement of Art students. So the parental encouragement of these students results same but

the academic achievement differs from each other. So the science students achieve the high level

scoring in their academic in 10th class and the Art Students scoring low level than the science

students in their academic achievement.

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5.3 Implication of the Study

On the basis of the conclusions drawn in the present investigation following implications

emerge.

1. Parents should pay special attention to provide health atmosphere at the home.

2. Parents should provide all facilities for the educational and psychological development of

the child.

3. Parents should give time to their children for the study.

4. Parents should paradise their children when they perform well.

5. Parents should help their Children in their study.

5.4 Suggestions for Further study

1. A comparative study of parental encouragement of Art boys and girls in relation to their

academic achievement.

2. A comparative study of parental encouragement of science boys and girls in relation to

their academic achievements.

3. A comparative study of parental encouragement of Art, science and commerce students.

4. A comparative study of parental encouragement of low and high achievers.

5. Comparative study can be conducted on different colleges.

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