International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Anubhuti Dubey ¹, Arpita Srivastava ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, D.D.0 Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, IN

Abstract

This study examines parental factors and achievement motivation and its relation to performance of adolescents. The sample comprised of sixty students of class 1 1 th. The research is based on their expected and achieved scores of class-10. To assess achievement motivation and parental factors the questionnaires are used. Data was analyzed using two way analysis of variance and multiple regression statistical analysis. Results indicated that High performance group of students have more achievement motivation in comparison to Low performance group of students. The scores on parental factors are also high in High performance group. Amongst the four parental factors, Parental approval emerged as the most significant predictor of achievement motivation and performance followed by resources made available by parents, parental encouragement, and parental pressure. The high performance group girls are more future oriented with high level of aspiration as their expected and achieved scores are less discrepant, however, the same is not true for low performance both boys and girls. They expected more and achieved less than their expectation. These findings imply that in the order to improve children's education, parental approval warrants the future orientation.

Keywords

Achievement Motivation, Future Orientation, Performance, Parental Factors

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Anubhuti Dubey ¹, Garima Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, IN

Abstract

A major portion of life period of a person is spent in school premises. During the schooling period a student interacts with teachers and other fellow students. Hence, the present study was undertaken to explore the student's experiences, expectations and conceptualization of school teacher in their life. The data was collected from undergraduate and postgraduate students (n=70) of Department of Psychology, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, individually. These students had written a write up on good and bad teachers in their school life with focus on their look alike, handling of classes, help or constraining in handling schooling pressure, behavior of teachers and student expectations, etc. The narrative analysis was done with focus on thematic and structural type of narrative analysis. The themes that emerged for good teacher included characteristics such as better way of teaching, no discrimination among students, disciplined class, dutiful, care and concern, person with moral values and helping nature. Characteristics of a bad teacher included themes such as insulting student in class, discrimination among students, inappropriate teaching methods, excessive expression of aggression and punishment, pessimistic and inhumane nature, and no respect for others. These findings are very pertinent in developing teacher training modules that what characteristic a student want or don't want in his/her teacher in contemporary world of information overload where the student is not looking to his/her teacher as information provider but as a motherly or fatherly figure who shape them, give emotional support in ups and downs of school pressure.

Keywords

Good Teacher, Bad Teacher, Theme, Narrative Analysis.

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