Insight: journal of applied research in education

Department of Education

University of Kashmir

Print ISSN: 0975-0665 Online ISSN: NA

The purpose of this study is to explore different patterns of Occupational Stress and teacher commitment in relation to locus of Control among teacher educators at secondary level selected from different colleges from Panjab university and Guru Nanak Dev university, India. Data is collected from 200 randomly selected teacher educator’s of colleges using Occupational Stress Index, Teacher Commitment Questionnaire, Locus of control internal and external scale. Significance of difference statistics has been employed to test hypotheses of the study. This research attempt to assess whether internal or external locus of control relates to Organizational stress and teacher commitment. Results showed that occupational stress and teacher commitment is significantly correlated with locus of control. Teacher educator with high external & internal locus of control are at high risk of stress, and anxiety than teachers with low external & internal locus of control. The performance of a teacher educator is significantly affected by internal-external locus of control. This study highlighted a vital impact of occupational stress and teacher commitment in relation to locus of control on teacher educators at secondary level.

As public demands for quality teachers have escalated, there has been a corresponding increase in national policy efforts to tie the standards of student success to teacher preparation, licensing, and evaluation. This conceptual paper examines how national authorities used specific policy tools to usurp the state’s responsibility to ensure quality teaching practices. A discussion of policy problems and instruments grounds the analysis of teacher education policy activity in India, UK and Japan. An effort through a theoretical analysis of various research studies was done to trace out the history of Teacher education in the above given countries, an analysis has been done to highlight the progress that has occurred in teacher education across the globe and suggestions were framed for the further progress at global level.

The study attempts to know the extent of enrolment, and retention rate of tribal students at upper primary stage and provide a comparative picture of tribal with respect to gender and educational zones of Ganderbal district. Descriptive survey has been used in present study. Using Information Blank, the primary information about student enrolment was gathered from the Chief and Zonal Educational offices of district Ganderbal. Percentage statistics was used to analyse the data. Statistical results were visualised through tables and bar graphs. The study revealed that tribals constitute 31.37% and 27.74% of aggregate Grade VI and Grade VIII enrolment respectively. The aggregate retention rate of district Ganderbal at Upper Primary stage of education was low (88.62%) while as that of tribal children also low (78.83%). The gaps/disparity between aggregate and tribal GRR were found. Gender disparity in GRR were observed in GRR of district Ganderbal. At upper primary stage, girls had low GRR (76.08%) than boys (81.48%), and tribal girls have lowest compared to boys (aggregate & tribal). Zonal disparity in GRR was observed in district Ganderbal. Zone Hariganwan had lowest GRR (Tribal and Overall) compared to zone, Kangan, Ganderbal and Tullamulla at upper primary stage.

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the emotional competence and family environment of students of Govt. Sr. Sec. school four districts of Himachal Pradesh. The study was conducted among Govt. Sr. Sec. Schools situated in Himachal Pradesh affiliated to HP Board of School Education Dharmshala. For this research work the researcher used emotional competence scale (EC) for students by Sharma and Bhardwaj and Family Environment Scale (FES) by Bhatia and Chadda. Researcher finds out Mean, Median S.D., Two-way ANNOVA and T-value for testing null hypothesis and find that there is no significance difference among both variables.

Reckoning the factors contributing to teacher effectiveness is a world-wide research and policy priority with the potential to influence teacher selection processes, enhances training and professional development and improving educational outcomes (Klassen,2014).The effectiveness of any educational system largely depends upon the effectiveness of teachers. Teacher is a basic agent who translates educational objectives and educational philosophy into knowledge and skills and accordingly transfers them to the students. The present study is aimed to provide a general review of the literature, taking into consideration common attributes of effective teacher. The study concluded that factors like personality, self-efficacy, teacher resilience, job satisfaction, teacher experience and pedagogical competence are all associated with teacher effectiveness.

Environmental ethics is the code of behavior for guiding and controlling human actions towards environment. This code of behavior does not depend on the presence or absence of environmental laws for the understanding, protection and improvement of the environment. It was found that the mean scores of Tribal Boys and Tribal Girls were 141.24 and 151.43 with Standard Deviations 42.13 and 44.37 respectively. The obtained ‘t’ value between the two groups came out to be 2.02 which is more than the table value i.e., 1.646 at 0.05 level and less than 2.581 at 0.01 level of significance. It revealed that there is significant difference in both the groups. It also revealed that tribal girls secondary school students have more dispositions about the environment than the tribal boys secondary school students. Hence, the null hypothesis of the present study “There is no significant difference between secondary school boys and girls students with respect to environmental disposition” is rejected. It means that the girls at secondary school level have more environmental disposition than the boys.

This study aims to ascertain the frequency and prevalence of suicidal thoughts and ideation among adolescent students enrolled in various government higher secondary schools in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. For the current study, a sample of 400 adolescents in classes 11th and 12th with a mean age of 17.3 years was chosen. Sisoda and Bhatnagar suicidal ideation scale (2011) was used to achieve the objectives. Data analysis was conducted using percentage statistics. According to the results, 59.5% of the respondents reported having suicidal thoughts. In order to stop the issue from worsening, administrators and school authorities must pay special attention to the study's critical and worrisome findings.

India is a diverse country characterized by multilingualism and the existence of different religions. Tribal communities and people from scheduled tribes also face rigorous disadvantages at numerous levels due to their unique geographical location. Tribal people used to live in a definite geographical area. They live in isolation from mainstream society. This isolation has kept them far from developing and from other sectors, including education. Tribal people have a vast diversity and have a unique culture. The tribal people live in the world of poverty, deprivation, separation, and illiteracy and a single potent medium which can bring them out bring them out from denial is education. Only education can help them to achieve social justice and equality in the society which should be in their mother tongue but the same has not been done till now. Such children feel confused in acquiring basic skills of writing and reading. Curriculum and pedagogy should be molded to make learning experiences relevant for students of tribal community; otherwise, they will avoid to go to Schools and will not understand its after effects. Therefore, to make education relevant for the children of Tribal Society, there is dire need to relook it immediately. This paper attempt to analyze the transactional practices of the Schedule Tribe in the different states of India. With this backdrop, the proposed paper attempts to analyze and highlight the curriculum transactional practices which may be used by teachers in schools for better accommodation and assurance of the success of tribal children of not only in different Union Territories of India but of whole Country and the whole World at large.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the cyber crime awareness among female B. Ed. trainees with respect to their type of and locality and find the cyber crime awareness among female B.Ed. trainees. The increased dependence on internet has led to the rise of cybercrime. Cybercrime is a new wave of crimes using internet facilities. Problems such as lack of proper training and education, the poor awareness of cybercrime among female have also contributed to the growth in cybercrime. In the present study researcher adopted descriptive survey method to collect the data for the cybercrime awareness among adolescents. The sample comprised 200 college going female B.Ed. trainees which were selected from government and private colleges. The female B.Ed. trainee belongs to rural and urban areas were taken from Sangrur and Patiala district of Punjab. Samples selected using “Cybercrime awareness scale” constructed and validated by Rajasekar S. (2011). Attempts have been made to assess the impact of females and residential area upon cyber crime awareness level of female B. Ed. trainee. The finding of the showed that the female B.Ed. trainees of government colleges were more aware of cyber crimes as compared to female B.Ed. trainees of private colleges. Moreover, the finding of the study showed that the female B.Ed. trainees of urban areas were more aware of cyber crimes as compared to female B.Ed. trainees of rural areas.

One of the most renowned academics in India during the 20th century was Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Had the distinction of being the person who built the bridge across India and the West. The supporter of democracy, liberalism and individualism. One of the founding father of contemporary India was Dr. Radhakrishnan. He was a dedicated thinker, philosopher and academic. The vedantic tradition’s teachings had an impact on his idealistic spiritual outlook. In India and internationally, he raised awareness among academics about Indian heritage. “If we wish to call ourselves civilized, we must cultivate compassion for the vulnerable and the suffering, chivalrous regard and respect for women, a belief in the inherent goodness of all people, regardless of race, color, or nation of origin, a love for freedom and peace, an aversion to cruelty, and a never-ending commitment to the pursuit of justice. Our education system should support the growth of our students’ fearlessness of thought, moral courage and purposefulness- observed by Dr. Radhakrishnan”. The portrait educational ideologies, concepts and functions of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan are extremely pertinent in the 21st century. These encompass the goals of education, the curriculum, the teaching strategies, the need for discipline, and the function of the teacher. The modern man’s perception will always be impacted by his profound influence. He will continue to be a champion of contemporary Indian education.

This research study aimed to determine the prevalence of behavioural deviance and parenting styles among adolescent students in the Kulgam district. The descriptive survey research design was employed for this investigation. Using a simple random sampling technique, four hundred adolescent students (12th grade) were collected from twelve higher secondary schools. The Gupta and Mehtani (2017) Parenting Style Scale and Chauhan and Aurora (1989) Behaviour Deviance Scale were used to collecting data. The gathered data was examined using percentage and frequency counts. It was revealed that a sizeable percentage (18.77%) of adolescent students in higher secondary schools of the Kulgam district exhibit behavioural deviance. The results also indicate that the democratic style of parenting is the most common among adolescent students, followed by autocratic, uninvolved, and permissive styles of parenting. Furthermore, the results also indicate that the permissive parenting style has the most significant proportion of deviant students, followed by autocratic, uninvolved, and democratic styles of parenting.

The purpose of present study was to investigate gender differences in defensive pessimism and self-handicapping along with their relationship among secondary school students’. The sample of the study was 10th grade 200 secondary school students, selected randomly from four randomly selected government school in Haryana. The data was collected with the help of two scales: defensive pessimism and self-handicapping. The defensive pessimism scale was constructed to measure reflectivity and defensive expectations thus providing two dimensional scores and their summated value for defensive pessimism score. On the other hand, Hindi version of self-handicapping scale (Jones & Rhodewalt,1982) was used for the study. The t-test result shows that there is no significant gender difference in defensive pessimism both in testing of reflectivity, and defensive expectations along with total defensive pessimism of secondary school students. Whereas female secondary school students had significantly higher level of selfhandicapping, thereby indicating girl students. Further the relationship between selfhandicapping and defensive pessimism was not significant across gender groups of secondary school students, suggesting that both the variables do not relate with each other. The implications of the study have been laid down in the light of these results on gender differences in defensive pessimism and self-handicapping among secondary school students.

Abstract The present study investigated the verbal intelligence of adolescents in relation to their gender and types of school. Descriptive research design was used to accomplish the objective of the study. A sample of 200 male and female adolescent’s students were taken from govt. and private school of Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh by random sampling technique. Researcher finds out Mean, S.D. and t-value for testing null hypothesis. The finding of the study revealed that there is significant difference between the mean score of male and female adolescents on verbal intelligence and also found significant difference between mean scores of government and private school adolescents’ on verbal intelligence.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) hold a rudimentary position in education pedagogies and have manifold functions and roles in assessment practice. The presence of ICT based assessment paves new ways of learning for teachers as well as for students. It does not confined teaching learning to classrooms but ensure open access to students even outside the classroom. It has become pervasive in all spheres of life and provides diverse horizons to leaning situations. It has changed the primitive outlook of learning towards modern and advanced leaning. Use of ICT continually helpful for personal growth, diverse thinking, problem solving and for collaborative leaning. It has even minimized the gap for those with special needs by providing individual access to essential material to fulfill their educational needs. We get to know its benefits during pandemic when everyone has to work from home and without ICT it was quite impossible for them to continue their routine work. Even teaching and learning remain confined through online mode. Due to paradigm shift from offline to virtual learning environment, educational institutions may include ICT based assessment to monitor the students learning progress. It is important to understand the increasing role of ICT to enhance assessment and evaluation process. The present paper focuses on the performing role of ICT in assessment in the present scenario of virtual environment.

This research article outlines the theoretical aspects related to national integration and draws its existence and importance for a democratic society. It binds every segment of a democratic society for a unified cause of serving and development of a nation. The purpose of this paper is to bring attention towards the gravity of the problem which harms the actual objectives of democracy and draws its negative impact on the pluralistic social domain of diverse India therefore, declines national integration. The data was collected from secondary sources which include books, Encyclopedias, research articles, newspapers, etc. Some of the factors which threaten the ideal of national Integration in the 21st century are Unequal distribution of resources, Negative attitude of natives towards people of other religions or castes, Hate Speeches, Insecurity of citizens, Minority problems, Enthronement of a biased leader.