Value Preference Of Higher Secondary School Students With Respect To Their Gender, Subject Stream And Academic Achievement.

Abstract

Values mean the set of principles that controls personal and social behavior or activities of a person in his or her social life. A society with values can establish itself at the national and international level. In the present study seven types of values are emphasized. These are social, moral, environmental, scientific, democratic, aesthetic and spiritual values. The study is undertaken to compare the value preference of higher secondary school students with respect to gender and subject stream and also to study the relationship between value preference and academic achievement. This was a descriptive survey type research. Total 260 higher secondary school students were selected as sample from seven schools of Purba Medinipur district, W.B. To measure the value preference of higher secondary school students researcher constructed and standardized a value preference scale which has reliability as 0.823. Mean, SD, column chart, t-ratio, F-ratio and Pearson correlation coefficient were calculated for analyzing the data. Findings revealed that the value preference of higher secondary school students is moderate. Values among the female higher secondary school students are higher than the male students and no significant difference was found between arts and science students. Further it was concluded that there is no significance correlation between value preference and academic achievement of higher secondary school students.