School Climate of Parsadiya Prathaik Vidhyalaya Located in District Agra: A Case Study

Abstract

The aim of the investigation is to study the school climate of Parisadiya Primary schools located in district Agra. A descriptive research method was employed in this research. Under the sample framework, Initially, through the simple random sampling method, 50 Parisadiya Primary schools of the Uttar Pradesh Government located in the rural areas were selected from district Agra. In addition, 100 teachers who taught at the primary level were selected through a simple random sampling method from selected schools. Investigator employed to assess the school climate of Parisadiya Primary schools located in district Agra through standardised test ‘School environment scale’ constructed by Shweta Agrawal and Shalini Pandey. Under the statistical techniques, the percentage was employed for data analysis. It is concluded that as compared to the number of schools under unfavorable categories (unfavorable, highly and extremely unfavorable) of school climate, most of the randomly selected schools are found under the different favorable categories (moderate, above moderate, highly and extremely favorable) of school climate but it is also critical note that nearly one-third of the total schools had unfavorable condition of its school climate in this era of modernization where government focused on qualitative and quantitative change in the schools.