The document summarizes a research study that compares awareness of human rights between students of B.Ed. and P.T.C. colleges. It finds that B.Ed. students have significantly higher levels of human rights awareness than P.T.C. students. Male students also have significantly higher awareness than female students overall. However, within each college type, there is no significant difference between male and female students. Male B.Ed. students have significantly higher awareness than male P.T.C. students, and female B.Ed. students have significantly higher awareness than female P.T.C. students. The study utilized a 5-point attitude scale survey of 100 students to measure

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Research Paper
A Comparative Study of Awarness About
Human Rights
* Nilesh B.Gajjar April , 2012
* Assistant Professor, B.Ed.College,Vadasma. Mehsana (N.G.)
A B S T R A C T
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made based on the political, jurisdictional, or international status of the country
or territory to which a person belongs, whether it is independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation
of sovereignty. For this, awareness of Human Rights is an elementary essential for human being. If one should not aware
anything, how he or she can protect themselves? Consequently, awareness is a best clarification of everybody. In this
way, the researchers decided that to study the relevance of the awareness of Human Rights in the students of Teacher
training college. Therefore, the researcher constructed five point rating- scale (contained 20 statements) for expressive
the relevance of human rights. The sample was selected randomly for data assortment. T-test were applied In favor of
analyzed the data. Null Hypothesis created to find out the significant different at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significant.
Introduction: of B.Ed. & P.T.C.
Twentieth Century seems to be a period of 6.There is a significant mean difference in the level of
revolution in all the field of life. As we are living in awareness about Human rights between female stu-
Global World, we have certain Millennium Goals such dents of B.Ed. & P.T.C.
as Human rights, Disease, Income poverty, Hunger, (5) Method :
Maternal and child mortality, Inadequate shelter, Gen- (A) Sample :
der in Equality, Environmental degradation and the Out of total students of B.Ed. and P.T.C., 50-50
global partnership. students of each faculty were selected randomly from
Objectives: College of Education Vadasma, Dist. Mehsana. In this
1. To study the level of awareness of B.Ed. and P.T.C. way total 100 students were among 100 students 25
students about Human rights. female students ware selected P.T.C. and 25 female
2. To compare the level of awareness of B.Ed. and P.T.C. students ware selected B.Ed. College. Same procedure
students about Human rights. was applied to selected male students from B.Ed. and
3. To compare the level of awareness of male and female P.T.C.
students of B.Ed. and P.T.C. College about Human (B) Tool :
rights. A Five point Attitude scale was prepared by re-
Statement of the Study: searchers, which contains 20th statements, among 20th
A comparative study of Awareness about Hu- statements, 15th statements ware positive & other 05
man rights. statements were negative statements to know the level
Hypothesis: of awareness about Human rights.
1.There is a significant mean difference in the level of The range of marks was 0 to 80.Out of 80
awareness about Human rights between students of marks, who got below 40 marks, they considered as an
B.Ed. and P.T.C. un favorable attitude towards Human rights awareness
2.There is a significant mean difference in the level of and who got 40 or more then 40 marks, they considered
awareness about Human rights between all male and all as a favorable attitude towards Human rights aware-
female students. ness.
3.There is a significant mean difference in the level of (C) Data Collection and Analysis :
awareness about Human rights between male & female The researcher used five point Attitude scale for
students of B.Ed. data collection. Later than, to analyzed the data, the
4.There is a significant mean difference in the level of Computerized Statistical Software package (Excel -
awareness about Human rights between male & female Windows Version - XP) was used by the researcher for
students of P.T.C. testing the hypothesis.
5.There is a significant mean difference in the level of (6) Findings:
awareness about Human rights between male students 1. There is a Significant mean difference shown at 0.01
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Table - 1 Summary of Data Analysis
Level of Variable Variable Sample Mean S.D. t-value Level of Sig. Sig.
Faculty B.Ed. 100 28.26 5.89 6.95 0.05 & 0.01 S
P.T.C. 100 21.10 4.96
Gender Male 50 29.30 9.32 7.96 0.05 & 0.01 S
Female 50 18.46 6.33
Faculty (B.Ed.) Male 25 24.86 4.25 1.86 0.05 & 0.01 NS
Female 25 23.14 5.13
Faculty (P.T.C.) Male 25 19.86 4.25 2.05 0.05 & 0.01 NS
Female 25 19.97 5.28
Gender (Male) B.Ed. 25 26.75 6.45 8.06 0.05 & 0.01 S
P.T.C. 25 19.57 7.23
Gender (Female) B.Ed. 25 23.30 4.84 7.88 0.05 & 0.01 S
P.T.C. 25 16.87 5.10
and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness
about Human rights between students of B.Ed. and about Human rights between male & female students
P.T.C. Moreover, the students of B.Ed. College are found of P.T.C.
to be better then the students of P.T.C. College in re- 5. There is a Significant mean difference shown at 0.01
spect of their Human rights awareness. and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness
2. There is a Significant mean difference shown at 0.01 about Human rights between male students of B.Ed. &
and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness P.T.C. Moreover, the Male students of B.Ed. College
about Human rights between all male & all female are found to be better then the Male students of P.T.C.
students. Moreover, the Male students are found to be College in respect of their Human rights awareness.
better then the Female students in respect of their 6. There is a Significant mean difference shown at 0.01
Human rights awareness. and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness
3. There is no Significant mean difference shown at 0.01 about Human rights between female students of B.Ed.
and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness & P.T.C. Moreover, the Female students of B.Ed. Col-
about Human rights between male & female students lege are found to be better then the Female students of
of B.Ed. P.T.C. College in respect of their Human rights aware-
4. There is no Significant mean difference shown at 0.01 ness.
and 0.05 level of significance in the level of awareness
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