This document summarizes a research study that examined the developmental attitudes of female students towards science subjects from secondary school to college level. The study administered a questionnaire to over 250 female students to investigate whether their interest levels and attitudes changed as they continued their studies. Key findings included that enjoyment of science increased, especially in chemistry, difficulty levels reduced, and interest was higher in mathematics than physics or chemistry. The study also found that attitudes towards experiments and handling apparatus improved with higher education. Overall, the study aimed to identify instructional strategies for improving girls' attitudes towards science.
The Secondary School students in relation to Scientific Attitude and Achievem...iosrjce
One of the chief objectives of education is the development of desirable attitudes in the students. It is,
there fore, observable that the teachers must understand the various dimensions of an attitude. It is also to be kept in
view that we are required to develop several attitudes in the students like attitude towards studies, attitude towards
self, attitude towards colleagues, attitude towards certain ideals, etc. Attitude is purely a psychological concept.
From psychological point of view it is difficult to discriminate attitude from other psychological concepts like
interest, aptitude or appreciation. Still, it is defined as the readiness of mind to respond to an object, person or a
situation. It is something that is learned by an individual as he learns many other things in life. Attitude is an
orientation or disposition or a sort of readiness to react in a certain way. Which an individual carries with him in a
sort of latent form and it may become manifest in an individual’s behavior only when an occasion arises. When an
individual has to express his attitude he may react to them in a predetermined manner either favorably or
unfavorably or in different manner. Hence this study attempts to know the relationship of achievement in science
and scientific attitude among students and the found result from this study was that there is no significant
relationship in achievement in science and scientific attitude.
The peer-reviewed International Journal of Engineering Inventions (IJEI) is started with a mission to encourage contribution to research in Science and Technology. Encourage and motivate researchers in challenging areas of Sciences and Technology.
An investigation of the scientific attitude among science students in senior ...Alexander Decker
This study investigated the scientific attitudes of 250 senior secondary school science students in Edo State, Nigeria. The study aimed to determine the level of scientific attitudes possessed by the students and whether attitudes differed by sex. Students completed the Inventory of Scientific Attitudes questionnaire to assess their curiosity, open-mindedness, objectivity, rational thinking, and aversion to superstition. Results showed the students had an average level of scientific attitudes. Additionally, scientific attitudes did not significantly differ between male and female students. The study recommended increasing experimentation and laboratory activities to improve students' scientific attitudes.
Effect of gender and location on students’ achievement in chemistry in second...Alexander Decker
The study investigated the effect of gender and location on students' achievement in chemistry in secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. It analyzed data from 827 students in 8 secondary schools. The findings showed that male students achieved significantly higher scores than female students in both urban and rural schools. There was no significant difference in achievement between students in urban versus rural schools. However, within urban schools only, boys achieved significantly higher scores than girls. The study concluded that gender influences achievement more than location.
This document presents a thesis that examines the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and their achievement in mathematics. It begins with an introduction that establishes the importance of mathematics and discusses the Philippines' poor performance in international mathematics assessments. The theoretical framework discusses theories related to mathematics learning and motivation. The study aims to determine the relationship between pupils' interest, study habits, and their mathematics achievement. It will survey grade 4-6 pupils to understand their levels of interest, study habits, and mathematics achievement. The study seeks to provide insights to help improve mathematics performance and education quality.
This study examined the scientific attitude of 9th class students based on management, locality, and sex. 300 9th class students were surveyed using a scientific attitude test. The study found that:
1. Management and sex had a significant influence on scientific attitude, with government school students and female students having higher scientific attitudes.
2. Locality did not have a significant influence on scientific attitude.
3. The study concluded that sex, management, and locality should be considered to improve science education and foster scientific attitude among students. Teachers should work to create interest in science for all students.
This study examined the development of science process skills in prospective science teachers at different grade levels. The researchers administered a 12-question science process skills assessment to 102 undergraduate students in their first through fourth years of a science teacher education program. They found that while students were expected to develop stronger science process skills as they progressed through each grade, the results did not show clear linear development. The study aimed to compare science process skills across grade levels and determine if differences existed between grades.
The Secondary School students in relation to Scientific Attitude and Achievem...iosrjce
One of the chief objectives of education is the development of desirable attitudes in the students. It is,
there fore, observable that the teachers must understand the various dimensions of an attitude. It is also to be kept in
view that we are required to develop several attitudes in the students like attitude towards studies, attitude towards
self, attitude towards colleagues, attitude towards certain ideals, etc. Attitude is purely a psychological concept.
From psychological point of view it is difficult to discriminate attitude from other psychological concepts like
interest, aptitude or appreciation. Still, it is defined as the readiness of mind to respond to an object, person or a
situation. It is something that is learned by an individual as he learns many other things in life. Attitude is an
orientation or disposition or a sort of readiness to react in a certain way. Which an individual carries with him in a
sort of latent form and it may become manifest in an individual’s behavior only when an occasion arises. When an
individual has to express his attitude he may react to them in a predetermined manner either favorably or
unfavorably or in different manner. Hence this study attempts to know the relationship of achievement in science
and scientific attitude among students and the found result from this study was that there is no significant
relationship in achievement in science and scientific attitude.
The peer-reviewed International Journal of Engineering Inventions (IJEI) is started with a mission to encourage contribution to research in Science and Technology. Encourage and motivate researchers in challenging areas of Sciences and Technology.
An investigation of the scientific attitude among science students in senior ...Alexander Decker
This study investigated the scientific attitudes of 250 senior secondary school science students in Edo State, Nigeria. The study aimed to determine the level of scientific attitudes possessed by the students and whether attitudes differed by sex. Students completed the Inventory of Scientific Attitudes questionnaire to assess their curiosity, open-mindedness, objectivity, rational thinking, and aversion to superstition. Results showed the students had an average level of scientific attitudes. Additionally, scientific attitudes did not significantly differ between male and female students. The study recommended increasing experimentation and laboratory activities to improve students' scientific attitudes.
Effect of gender and location on students’ achievement in chemistry in second...Alexander Decker
The study investigated the effect of gender and location on students' achievement in chemistry in secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. It analyzed data from 827 students in 8 secondary schools. The findings showed that male students achieved significantly higher scores than female students in both urban and rural schools. There was no significant difference in achievement between students in urban versus rural schools. However, within urban schools only, boys achieved significantly higher scores than girls. The study concluded that gender influences achievement more than location.
This document presents a thesis that examines the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and their achievement in mathematics. It begins with an introduction that establishes the importance of mathematics and discusses the Philippines' poor performance in international mathematics assessments. The theoretical framework discusses theories related to mathematics learning and motivation. The study aims to determine the relationship between pupils' interest, study habits, and their mathematics achievement. It will survey grade 4-6 pupils to understand their levels of interest, study habits, and mathematics achievement. The study seeks to provide insights to help improve mathematics performance and education quality.
This study examined the scientific attitude of 9th class students based on management, locality, and sex. 300 9th class students were surveyed using a scientific attitude test. The study found that:
1. Management and sex had a significant influence on scientific attitude, with government school students and female students having higher scientific attitudes.
2. Locality did not have a significant influence on scientific attitude.
3. The study concluded that sex, management, and locality should be considered to improve science education and foster scientific attitude among students. Teachers should work to create interest in science for all students.
This study examined the development of science process skills in prospective science teachers at different grade levels. The researchers administered a 12-question science process skills assessment to 102 undergraduate students in their first through fourth years of a science teacher education program. They found that while students were expected to develop stronger science process skills as they progressed through each grade, the results did not show clear linear development. The study aimed to compare science process skills across grade levels and determine if differences existed between grades.
THIYAGU - PERCEPTION TOWARDS RESEARCH AMONG M.ED, SCHOLARS IN TUTICORIN DISTRICTThiyagu K
The main aim of the M.Ed. course is to provide capability of serving community in general and developing research perception and skills among the students in specific these students in future have to promote interest towards research among the M.Ed., students when they take up their jobs as teacher educators. The main theme of the present study is “A study on research perception among M.Ed. scholars”. The main aim of the study is to find out the level of perception towards research among M.Ed. scholars. Survey method is employed for this study. The investigator has randomly chosen 253 M.Ed., scholar for the study. The findings of the study are (1) There is no significant difference in the mean scores of perception towards research among the M.Ed., Scholars with respect to their gender and level of study. (2) There is significant difference in the mean scores of perception towards research among the M.Ed., Scholars with respect to their age. Etc.,
Project on Achievement in Life Science: It’s Relationship with Aptitude in Li...inventionjournals
- The document discusses a study investigating the relationship between achievement in life science, aptitude in life science, and scientific attitude.
- Descriptive statistics showed males had higher average achievement scores in life science than females. Further analysis found this gender difference in achievement to be statistically significant.
- Correlation analysis revealed achievement in life science to be positively correlated with both aptitude in life science and scientific attitude. However, the exact coefficients are not provided in the summary.
This document provides an introduction, rationale, theoretical background and statement of the problem for a thesis that examines the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics. Specifically, it:
1) Discusses poor performance on international math assessments and declining math education in the Philippines.
2) Presents literature showing a relationship between non-cognitive factors like study habits and attitudes on academic performance.
3) Introduces a conceptual framework examining the extent of pupil interest and study habits as inputs and their correlation to mathematics achievement as outputs.
4) Aims to determine the correlation between pupil interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics for grades 4-6.
This study used latent class analysis to examine survey responses from a nationally representative sample of 7th graders in the US about their science attitudes, perceptions of teacher support, and later STEM career attainment. The analysis identified four latent classes: 1) students who found science useful and felt teacher encouragement, 2) students who found science useful but did not feel teacher encouragement, 3) students who did not find science useful but felt some teacher encouragement, and 4) students who did not find science useful and did not feel teacher encouragement. Students in the first two classes were twice as likely to enter STEM careers compared to the last two classes, indicating the importance of both positive science attitudes and perceived teacher support.
MarroquinRosalesNdomoLee et al. (2016)_CSUEB Science Ed Poster(1)Rodrigue Ndomo
This study examined differences in science achievement and self-efficacy among three subgroups of underrepresented middle school students: English Language Learners (ELL), students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, and students who are both ELL and low SES. The results showed no significant differences in self-efficacy between or within the groups. For science achievement, the ELL group had the lowest gains and scores, while surprisingly the ELL/low SES group showed the greatest gains and highest post-test scores. This may be because students in this double category receive more support services in their schools.
This document provides background information and outlines the research methodology for a study investigating the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics. Specifically, the study aims to determine if there are significant relationships between pupils' mathematics achievement and their interest and study habits. The study will survey grade 4-6 pupils at a school to understand their interest levels, study habits, and mathematics achievement. The results could help administrators, teachers, and students identify factors influencing mathematics performance and guide future educational programs and strategies. The study is limited to one school during the second quarter of the 2017-2018 school year.
This study analyzed differences in life satisfaction among science students at North-Eastern Hill University in India. 331 students completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Results found significant differences in life satisfaction between male and female students, tribal and non-tribal students, native Meghalaya students and other community students, and students from Meghalaya and other states. No significant differences were found between hostellers and non-hostellers or between students in different semesters or schools. The study contributes to understanding differences in life satisfaction among university student groups.
A Study of Anxiety in Relation to Academic Achievement among Higher Secondary...ijtsrd
Our education mainly stresses to develop cognitive aspect which deals with knowledge and to some extent develop cognitive aspect which deals with motor skills. The affective aspect which deals with emotions, feelings and sentiments of the child is totally neglected by our Education. For developing the child emotionally and socially mature, only formal education is not enough but informal education which the child gets from his family and society is also needed. In the past years, there has been extensive research on various approaches of teaching in secondary education. But no one method or approach has been found consistently superior to all. It reveals the fact that no single approach can be best suited to all the students. The most important question is to determine which students achieve more and under what conditions and also the factors which affect the achievement. An emerging area of research that holds promise in helping us to answer these questions is student's level of general mental ability in anxiety and emotional adjustment. Researchers and educationists are now attempting a thorough work in the area of general anxiety and emotional adjustment and found it a very potential one in influencing the student's academic achievement. R. Thilagavathy Rosana | Dr. R. Ravi ""A Study of Anxiety in Relation to Academic Achievement among Higher Secondary Students"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25130.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25130/a-study-of-anxiety-in-relation-to-academic-achievement-among-higher-secondary-students/r-thilagavathy-rosana
Causes of mass failure in senior school certificate mathematics examinationsAlexander Decker
1. The study examined the causes of mass failure in Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in Mathematics as viewed by secondary school teachers and students in Ondo, Nigeria.
2. Key findings from teachers and students included that laziness on the part of students and lack of frequent practice by students were major factors responsible for mass failure. Additional causes included poor mathematical background, parental influence on career choice, and society viewing mathematics as difficult.
3. Teachers and students also identified teacher-related causes such as incompetent handling of difficult topics, poor teaching methods, and lack of practical activities as contributing to mass failure. Government paying poor salaries to teachers was another cited cause.
A study on gender difference in attitude towards scienceIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a study on gender differences in attitudes towards science. The study administered a questionnaire to approximately 200 secondary school students in India to understand their perspectives on various science subjects. The results found significant differences between males and females in their enjoyment, interest and perceived difficulty of different science subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. For example, more males enjoyed and wanted to learn physics while more females felt biology was more useful and interesting. The study suggests these attitudinal differences may influence the career paths chosen by males and females.
Effective STEM Education Strategies for Diverse and Underserved Learners Elaine Machado
This document discusses effective STEM education strategies for diverse and underserved learners from multiple theoretical perspectives. It describes how the cognitively based perspective focuses on developing students' scientific reasoning and argumentation skills by connecting to their everyday knowledge and discourse practices. The cross-cultural perspective addresses how some students' cultural ways of knowing may differ from Western science and how instruction can help students navigate between contexts. Equitable opportunities involve valuing students' experiences, explicitly connecting them to scientific practices, and providing sufficient resources to support learning.
The Effect of STEM Project Based Learning on Self-Efficacy among High-School ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in terms of improving students’ skills in self-efficacy levels in physics mechanics at high school level has not been demonstrated as expected in the previous literature. This study followed a quasi-experimental research method. Bandura’s social cognitive theory is used to assess and compare the effect of STEM PjBL with conventional teaching method on students’ self-efficacy level in learning physics among over 100 high school students. The result illustrated that STEM PjBL improve students’ self-efficacy to solve physics problem. Also, the study proposes a guideline for future research.
Effects of attitudes of female students on the performance in mathematics in ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study that examines the influence of attitudes of female students on mathematics performance in secondary schools in Teso District, Kenya. It provides background on the importance of education in Kenya and defines key concepts of academic performance and attitude. The literature review discusses research that found females generally have more negative attitudes towards mathematics internationally and in Kenya, where females are underrepresented in STEM fields. The study aims to explore the psychological factors of attitude and ability that influence secondary school female students' mathematics performance in Teso District.
The study of relationship between learning styles and time management among g...Alexander Decker
This study investigated the relationship between learning styles and time management among graduate students. 110 graduate students from various programs and universities participated. The results showed:
1) There was no significant relationship found between students' time management and their learning styles.
2) No significant relationship was found between learning style and time management when considering demographic variables like field of study, age, or gender.
3) Time management skills were better for students in mathematics compared to students in industrial fields.
Factors influencing effective learning of mathematics at senior secondary sch...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study that investigated factors influencing effective learning of mathematics at senior secondary schools in Gombe, Nigeria. The study surveyed 120 students across 4 schools about availability of qualified teachers, teaching methods, class sizes, and access to textbooks. Results found that lack of qualified teachers and inadequate textbooks significantly impacted student learning. It was recommended that only qualified math teachers be hired, class sizes be reduced, and textbooks be subsidized to improve math education outcomes.
Project based science-learning_and_pre-service_teachersGraceLangcoy
This study examined the effectiveness of project-based science learning on pre-service teachers' science literacy skills and creative thinking abilities in wave and optical materials. 115 pre-service teachers participated in the study. Students were divided into two groups - an experimental group that used project-based learning and a control group that used conventional learning.
The results showed that project-based learning was more effective at improving students' science literacy skills and creative thinking abilities compared to conventional learning. Students' science literacy skills such as analyzing and interpreting data improved to a moderate degree with project-based learning, while conventional learning led to low improvements. Students were also more likely to search scientific journals and proceedings for references after project-based learning. However, some
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982). Dr. Kritsonis has served as an elementary school teacher, elementary and middle school principal, superintendent of schools, director of student teaching and field experiences, professor, author, consultant, and journal editor. Dr. Kritsonis has considerable experience in chairing PhD dissertations and master thesis and has supervised practicums for teacher candidates, curriculum supervisors, central office personnel, principals, and superintendents. He also has experience in teaching in doctoral and masters programs in elementary and secondary education as well as educational leadership and supervision. He has earned the rank as professor at three universities in two states, including successful post-tenure reviews.
Perceived stress among international students at Dibrugarh UniversityRumbidzai Faith Matanga
This document presents a study on the perceived stress levels of international students at Dibrugarh University in India. The study aimed to assess stress levels in relation to students' level of educational affiliation (undergraduate, postgraduate, research scholar). A perceived stress scale was administered to 20 international students. Results found most students reported average stress levels, with new students reporting higher stress. Statistical analysis found no significant difference in stress levels between educational affiliation levels. The study provides recommendations to help reduce stress for international students.
Minimal dominating functions of corona product graph of a cycle with a complIAEME Publication
The document summarizes research on minimal dominating functions of the corona product graph of a cycle and complete graph. Some key points:
1) It defines the corona product graph G = CnÍKm, where Cn is an n-vertex cycle and Km is a complete graph of m vertices.
2) It proves several properties of G, such as its degree sequence, number of vertices and edges.
3) It studies minimal dominating functions of G, proving the domination number is n and constructing a minimal dominating function that assigns 1 to vertices in a minimum dominating set and 0 otherwise.
Optimization of surface roughness in high speed end milling operation usingIAEME Publication
This document summarizes an investigation into optimizing surface roughness in high-speed end milling of Al-Si-Mg-Fe alloy workpieces using Taguchi's method. The study used an L9 orthogonal array to experiment with cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut. Surface roughness was measured and ANOVA was performed. Results showed depth of cut had the strongest influence on surface roughness, contributing over 73% of the variation, while cutting speed and feed rate also significantly impacted surface roughness. Surface roughness decreased with increasing cutting speed and increased with higher feed rates and depths of cut. Overall, Taguchi's method was able to optimize the machining parameters to minimize surface roughness.
Effect of the welding process parameter in mmaw for joining of dissimilar metalsIAEME Publication
This document discusses optimizing welding parameters for joining dissimilar metals using manual metal arc welding and an artificial neural fuzzy interface system. Experimental results were analyzed using regression analysis to develop mathematical models relating welding current, voltage, speed, and electrode angle to weld strength and metal deposition rate. An artificial neural network was trained on the experimental data and used to predict the optimal parameters to achieve the highest weld strength. Validation experiments showed the artificial neural fuzzy interface system successfully optimized the welding parameters.
THIYAGU - PERCEPTION TOWARDS RESEARCH AMONG M.ED, SCHOLARS IN TUTICORIN DISTRICTThiyagu K
The main aim of the M.Ed. course is to provide capability of serving community in general and developing research perception and skills among the students in specific these students in future have to promote interest towards research among the M.Ed., students when they take up their jobs as teacher educators. The main theme of the present study is “A study on research perception among M.Ed. scholars”. The main aim of the study is to find out the level of perception towards research among M.Ed. scholars. Survey method is employed for this study. The investigator has randomly chosen 253 M.Ed., scholar for the study. The findings of the study are (1) There is no significant difference in the mean scores of perception towards research among the M.Ed., Scholars with respect to their gender and level of study. (2) There is significant difference in the mean scores of perception towards research among the M.Ed., Scholars with respect to their age. Etc.,
Project on Achievement in Life Science: It’s Relationship with Aptitude in Li...inventionjournals
- The document discusses a study investigating the relationship between achievement in life science, aptitude in life science, and scientific attitude.
- Descriptive statistics showed males had higher average achievement scores in life science than females. Further analysis found this gender difference in achievement to be statistically significant.
- Correlation analysis revealed achievement in life science to be positively correlated with both aptitude in life science and scientific attitude. However, the exact coefficients are not provided in the summary.
This document provides an introduction, rationale, theoretical background and statement of the problem for a thesis that examines the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics. Specifically, it:
1) Discusses poor performance on international math assessments and declining math education in the Philippines.
2) Presents literature showing a relationship between non-cognitive factors like study habits and attitudes on academic performance.
3) Introduces a conceptual framework examining the extent of pupil interest and study habits as inputs and their correlation to mathematics achievement as outputs.
4) Aims to determine the correlation between pupil interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics for grades 4-6.
This study used latent class analysis to examine survey responses from a nationally representative sample of 7th graders in the US about their science attitudes, perceptions of teacher support, and later STEM career attainment. The analysis identified four latent classes: 1) students who found science useful and felt teacher encouragement, 2) students who found science useful but did not feel teacher encouragement, 3) students who did not find science useful but felt some teacher encouragement, and 4) students who did not find science useful and did not feel teacher encouragement. Students in the first two classes were twice as likely to enter STEM careers compared to the last two classes, indicating the importance of both positive science attitudes and perceived teacher support.
MarroquinRosalesNdomoLee et al. (2016)_CSUEB Science Ed Poster(1)Rodrigue Ndomo
This study examined differences in science achievement and self-efficacy among three subgroups of underrepresented middle school students: English Language Learners (ELL), students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, and students who are both ELL and low SES. The results showed no significant differences in self-efficacy between or within the groups. For science achievement, the ELL group had the lowest gains and scores, while surprisingly the ELL/low SES group showed the greatest gains and highest post-test scores. This may be because students in this double category receive more support services in their schools.
This document provides background information and outlines the research methodology for a study investigating the correlation between pupils' interest, study habits, and achievement in mathematics. Specifically, the study aims to determine if there are significant relationships between pupils' mathematics achievement and their interest and study habits. The study will survey grade 4-6 pupils at a school to understand their interest levels, study habits, and mathematics achievement. The results could help administrators, teachers, and students identify factors influencing mathematics performance and guide future educational programs and strategies. The study is limited to one school during the second quarter of the 2017-2018 school year.
This study analyzed differences in life satisfaction among science students at North-Eastern Hill University in India. 331 students completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Results found significant differences in life satisfaction between male and female students, tribal and non-tribal students, native Meghalaya students and other community students, and students from Meghalaya and other states. No significant differences were found between hostellers and non-hostellers or between students in different semesters or schools. The study contributes to understanding differences in life satisfaction among university student groups.
A Study of Anxiety in Relation to Academic Achievement among Higher Secondary...ijtsrd
Our education mainly stresses to develop cognitive aspect which deals with knowledge and to some extent develop cognitive aspect which deals with motor skills. The affective aspect which deals with emotions, feelings and sentiments of the child is totally neglected by our Education. For developing the child emotionally and socially mature, only formal education is not enough but informal education which the child gets from his family and society is also needed. In the past years, there has been extensive research on various approaches of teaching in secondary education. But no one method or approach has been found consistently superior to all. It reveals the fact that no single approach can be best suited to all the students. The most important question is to determine which students achieve more and under what conditions and also the factors which affect the achievement. An emerging area of research that holds promise in helping us to answer these questions is student's level of general mental ability in anxiety and emotional adjustment. Researchers and educationists are now attempting a thorough work in the area of general anxiety and emotional adjustment and found it a very potential one in influencing the student's academic achievement. R. Thilagavathy Rosana | Dr. R. Ravi ""A Study of Anxiety in Relation to Academic Achievement among Higher Secondary Students"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25130.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25130/a-study-of-anxiety-in-relation-to-academic-achievement-among-higher-secondary-students/r-thilagavathy-rosana
Causes of mass failure in senior school certificate mathematics examinationsAlexander Decker
1. The study examined the causes of mass failure in Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in Mathematics as viewed by secondary school teachers and students in Ondo, Nigeria.
2. Key findings from teachers and students included that laziness on the part of students and lack of frequent practice by students were major factors responsible for mass failure. Additional causes included poor mathematical background, parental influence on career choice, and society viewing mathematics as difficult.
3. Teachers and students also identified teacher-related causes such as incompetent handling of difficult topics, poor teaching methods, and lack of practical activities as contributing to mass failure. Government paying poor salaries to teachers was another cited cause.
A study on gender difference in attitude towards scienceIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a study on gender differences in attitudes towards science. The study administered a questionnaire to approximately 200 secondary school students in India to understand their perspectives on various science subjects. The results found significant differences between males and females in their enjoyment, interest and perceived difficulty of different science subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. For example, more males enjoyed and wanted to learn physics while more females felt biology was more useful and interesting. The study suggests these attitudinal differences may influence the career paths chosen by males and females.
Effective STEM Education Strategies for Diverse and Underserved Learners Elaine Machado
This document discusses effective STEM education strategies for diverse and underserved learners from multiple theoretical perspectives. It describes how the cognitively based perspective focuses on developing students' scientific reasoning and argumentation skills by connecting to their everyday knowledge and discourse practices. The cross-cultural perspective addresses how some students' cultural ways of knowing may differ from Western science and how instruction can help students navigate between contexts. Equitable opportunities involve valuing students' experiences, explicitly connecting them to scientific practices, and providing sufficient resources to support learning.
The Effect of STEM Project Based Learning on Self-Efficacy among High-School ...Nader Ale Ebrahim
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project-Based Learning (PjBL) is increase effectiveness, create meaningful learning and influence student attitudes in future career pursuit. There are several studies in the literature reporting different aspects of STEM into a PjBL pedagogy. However, the effect of implementing STEM PjBL in terms of improving students’ skills in self-efficacy levels in physics mechanics at high school level has not been demonstrated as expected in the previous literature. This study followed a quasi-experimental research method. Bandura’s social cognitive theory is used to assess and compare the effect of STEM PjBL with conventional teaching method on students’ self-efficacy level in learning physics among over 100 high school students. The result illustrated that STEM PjBL improve students’ self-efficacy to solve physics problem. Also, the study proposes a guideline for future research.
Effects of attitudes of female students on the performance in mathematics in ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study that examines the influence of attitudes of female students on mathematics performance in secondary schools in Teso District, Kenya. It provides background on the importance of education in Kenya and defines key concepts of academic performance and attitude. The literature review discusses research that found females generally have more negative attitudes towards mathematics internationally and in Kenya, where females are underrepresented in STEM fields. The study aims to explore the psychological factors of attitude and ability that influence secondary school female students' mathematics performance in Teso District.
The study of relationship between learning styles and time management among g...Alexander Decker
This study investigated the relationship between learning styles and time management among graduate students. 110 graduate students from various programs and universities participated. The results showed:
1) There was no significant relationship found between students' time management and their learning styles.
2) No significant relationship was found between learning style and time management when considering demographic variables like field of study, age, or gender.
3) Time management skills were better for students in mathematics compared to students in industrial fields.
Factors influencing effective learning of mathematics at senior secondary sch...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study that investigated factors influencing effective learning of mathematics at senior secondary schools in Gombe, Nigeria. The study surveyed 120 students across 4 schools about availability of qualified teachers, teaching methods, class sizes, and access to textbooks. Results found that lack of qualified teachers and inadequate textbooks significantly impacted student learning. It was recommended that only qualified math teachers be hired, class sizes be reduced, and textbooks be subsidized to improve math education outcomes.
Project based science-learning_and_pre-service_teachersGraceLangcoy
This study examined the effectiveness of project-based science learning on pre-service teachers' science literacy skills and creative thinking abilities in wave and optical materials. 115 pre-service teachers participated in the study. Students were divided into two groups - an experimental group that used project-based learning and a control group that used conventional learning.
The results showed that project-based learning was more effective at improving students' science literacy skills and creative thinking abilities compared to conventional learning. Students' science literacy skills such as analyzing and interpreting data improved to a moderate degree with project-based learning, while conventional learning led to low improvements. Students were also more likely to search scientific journals and proceedings for references after project-based learning. However, some
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief, NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS (Founded 1982). Dr. Kritsonis has served as an elementary school teacher, elementary and middle school principal, superintendent of schools, director of student teaching and field experiences, professor, author, consultant, and journal editor. Dr. Kritsonis has considerable experience in chairing PhD dissertations and master thesis and has supervised practicums for teacher candidates, curriculum supervisors, central office personnel, principals, and superintendents. He also has experience in teaching in doctoral and masters programs in elementary and secondary education as well as educational leadership and supervision. He has earned the rank as professor at three universities in two states, including successful post-tenure reviews.
Perceived stress among international students at Dibrugarh UniversityRumbidzai Faith Matanga
This document presents a study on the perceived stress levels of international students at Dibrugarh University in India. The study aimed to assess stress levels in relation to students' level of educational affiliation (undergraduate, postgraduate, research scholar). A perceived stress scale was administered to 20 international students. Results found most students reported average stress levels, with new students reporting higher stress. Statistical analysis found no significant difference in stress levels between educational affiliation levels. The study provides recommendations to help reduce stress for international students.
Minimal dominating functions of corona product graph of a cycle with a complIAEME Publication
The document summarizes research on minimal dominating functions of the corona product graph of a cycle and complete graph. Some key points:
1) It defines the corona product graph G = CnÍKm, where Cn is an n-vertex cycle and Km is a complete graph of m vertices.
2) It proves several properties of G, such as its degree sequence, number of vertices and edges.
3) It studies minimal dominating functions of G, proving the domination number is n and constructing a minimal dominating function that assigns 1 to vertices in a minimum dominating set and 0 otherwise.
Optimization of surface roughness in high speed end milling operation usingIAEME Publication
This document summarizes an investigation into optimizing surface roughness in high-speed end milling of Al-Si-Mg-Fe alloy workpieces using Taguchi's method. The study used an L9 orthogonal array to experiment with cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut. Surface roughness was measured and ANOVA was performed. Results showed depth of cut had the strongest influence on surface roughness, contributing over 73% of the variation, while cutting speed and feed rate also significantly impacted surface roughness. Surface roughness decreased with increasing cutting speed and increased with higher feed rates and depths of cut. Overall, Taguchi's method was able to optimize the machining parameters to minimize surface roughness.
Effect of the welding process parameter in mmaw for joining of dissimilar metalsIAEME Publication
This document discusses optimizing welding parameters for joining dissimilar metals using manual metal arc welding and an artificial neural fuzzy interface system. Experimental results were analyzed using regression analysis to develop mathematical models relating welding current, voltage, speed, and electrode angle to weld strength and metal deposition rate. An artificial neural network was trained on the experimental data and used to predict the optimal parameters to achieve the highest weld strength. Validation experiments showed the artificial neural fuzzy interface system successfully optimized the welding parameters.
Comparative analysis of multi stage cordic using micro rotation techniqueIAEME Publication
This document presents a comparative analysis of multi-stage CORDIC algorithms using a micro-rotation technique. It proposes a novel pipelined CORDIC architecture for efficient hardware implementation of trigonometric functions. The architecture reduces critical path delay by dividing the CORDIC rotations into multiple pipeline stages. It also suggests a generalized micro-rotation selection technique to reduce the number of iterations needed. Simulation results on a Xilinx FPGA show the proposed design has 51.9% lower slice-delay product and consumes 0.192 watts of power, demonstrating improved efficiency over other CORDIC implementations.
Simulation and optimization of unloading point of a sugarcane industryIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a case study of optimizing the unloading time at a sugarcane industry in India. Data was collected on inter-arrival times of delivery trucks and service times. Probability distributions were fitted using Minitab, with Weibull for inter-arrivals and Normal for service times. A simulation model was built in Extend simulating the existing 3 unloading point system, which matched actual average wait times of 14.15 hours. The model was used to test adding more unloading points, finding average wait dropped to 2.21 hours with 5 points. An optimization approach using wait and service costs determined the optimum number of points.
Consideration of reactive energy in the tariff structureIAEME Publication
The document discusses considerations for including the cost of reactive energy in electricity tariffs. It proposes a framework to charge penalties to consumers that violate grid codes by drawing reactive power. The key points are:
1) Reactive power is important for grid stability but its value varies locally, so pricing should consider location.
2) A penalty tariff structure is proposed to charge consumers extra for reactive power drawn in violation of grid codes like unity power factor.
3) The cost of reactive energy would be estimated based on the existing tariff structure for active energy and demand charges, using the ratio of reactive demand to active demand costs. This allows distribution companies to recover costs for procuring reactive power.
Consumer behaviour a key influencer of rural market potentialIAEME Publication
The document discusses consumer behavior in rural markets in India. Some key points:
- Rural markets in India offer huge potential due to their large population size and rising incomes and consumption. Over 70% of Indians live in rural areas.
- Rural incomes and standards of living have been rising due to factors like increased agricultural output and jobs in nearby towns. Rural households are projected to grow faster than urban households.
- However, rural areas still face issues like illiteracy, poverty, and lack of infrastructure. Consumer behavior in rural areas is influenced more by community and opinion leaders than in urban areas.
- As rural incomes and aspirations continue rising, the rural market is becoming increasingly attractive to marketers. Understanding diverse rural consumer
Analyzing numerically study the effect of add a spacer layer in gires tournoisIAEME Publication
This document analyzes numerically the effect of adding a spacer layer in Gires-Tournois interferometer design. It demonstrates three GTI structures with different spacer layers to study the impact on pulse width and reflectivity. The first design uses TiO2/SiO2 layers without a spacer and shows high reflectance but near-zero group delay dispersion. The second design adds a spacer layer, broadening the reflectance bandwidth but introducing non-linear group delay dispersion. The third design further increases the spacer layer, increasing reflectance and dispersion values but narrowing the bandwidth and worsening non-linearity. Adding a spacer layer can impact pulse width, reflectivity, bandwidth and dispersion non-linearity in GTI design.
Utilization of bentonite silt mixtures as seepage barriers in liner systemsIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a study on using bentonite-silt mixtures as seepage barriers in landfill liner systems. Standard proctor tests were conducted on silt samples stabilized with 3-15% bentonite by weight. For both silts, maximum dry density increased and optimum moisture content decreased with higher bentonite content. Permeability tests found that permeability decreased significantly for both silts as bentonite content increased, reducing permeability by over 99% in some mixtures. The study demonstrates that bentonite addition can improve the compaction and decrease the permeability of silts for use as landfill liner materials.
A mathematical model for predicting autoclave expansion for portland cement 2IAEME Publication
This document discusses:
[1] A mathematical model was developed to predict autoclave expansion test results for Iraqi Portland cements based on a statistical analysis of 130 test results from four Iraqi cement factories over several months.
[2] The autoclave expansion test measures unsoundness in cement by exposing specimens to high pressure steam and monitoring expansion. Factors that influence the test results include free CaO, MgO, sulfate content, and cement fineness.
[3] The developed model had a high coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.97) and correlated well (r = 0.92) with new experimental data, indicating it can accurately predict autoclave expansion and help save time and resources
This document summarizes a study on students' attitudes toward research. The study found that most students had a negative attitude toward research activities and lacked capabilities and insight into research. It is recommended to improve students' knowledge and engagement with research. While students showed some knowledge of research, their attitudes were inadequate. Greater focus on research skills in the curriculum could help increase student interest. Barriers like a lack of information and support negatively impact students' research abilities. Overall, graduating students tended to have negative views of research, which is problematic if a nation aims to advance in technology and research. The instructional process should be modified to foster more positive attitudes toward research methods.
An Investigation into the Relationship between Scientific Attitudes of VIII C...iosrjce
This document investigates the relationship between scientific attitudes and achievement in science among 8th class Urdu medium minority students in India. It aims to study how personal and demographic factors influence scientific attitudes and science achievement. The study measures the scientific attitudes and science achievement of 441 students using validated scales. Statistical analysis is conducted to determine the impact of variables like gender, locality, family background, and school type. The findings could help identify factors affecting science education standards and suggest ways to improve achievement for all students.
A Study on Attitude towards Educational Research among B.Ed Students Teachersijtsrd
This paper describes the development of a new measure of attitude towards Educational Research for use among B.Ed. Student Teachers which operationalizes the affective attitudinal domain. Item selection, the internal structure and reliability of the scale, content validity and construct validity were established on a sample of 250 B.Ed. Student Teachers in the Educational Colleges in Coimbatore. A study of level of Attitude towards Educational Research among B.Ed. Student Teachers between the groups that there is a significant with respect to medium of instruction and educational qualification and no significant with respect to gender, locality and marital status. Ms. J. Morin | Mrs. D. Geetha ""A Study on Attitude towards Educational Research among B.Ed Students Teachers"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25111.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25111/a-study-on-attitude-towards-educational-research-among-bed-students-teachers/ms-j-morin
Correlation of Teaching Competencies among Science and Non Science Majors and...ijtsrd
This document summarizes a study that investigated the relationship between teaching competencies of science and non-science teachers and the level of mastery among students in selected public secondary schools in Northern Samar, Philippines. The study found that most teachers were highly competent in teaching skills and classroom management, and competent in subject knowledge. It also found that most students had a low level of mastery in science concepts. There was a significant relationship found between teacher competency and student mastery levels. Additionally, there were significant differences found between the competencies of science vs. non-science teachers, and in student mastery levels between those taught by science vs. non-science teachers.
Third grade elementary students were asked to describe what science is in order to understand their conceptual understanding of science. Their responses were analyzed and coded, resulting in 46 codes that were grouped into 7 themes. The most commonly used codes by students fell under the theme of "scientific process". This suggests that students primarily view science as involving processes like experimentation, research, and problem solving. The findings provide insights that can help improve the teaching of science at the elementary level.
This document summarizes a study that investigated gender differences in attitudes toward science. The study administered a questionnaire to 200 secondary school students in India to assess their attitudes toward various science subjects. Statistical analysis found significant differences between females and males, with males generally having more positive attitudes. For example, 21% of boys enjoyed physics compared to just 7% of girls. The results suggest that attitudinal gender differences toward science exist and may influence future enrollment in science fields.
A comparative study of the classroom treatment of male and female students of...Alexander Decker
This study examined potential differences in how male and female students are treated in classrooms at the Federal Polytechnic in Ilaro, Nigeria. Surveys were administered to 102 male and 102 female final year students to assess their perceptions of classroom treatment. Interview were also conducted with 8 lecturers. The results found no significant differences between male and female students' perceptions of their classroom experiences. Additionally, there was a negative but weak relationship between males' and females' attitudes toward education. The study concluded that gender does not play a role in how students experience classrooms and that teachers should aim for gender-neutral practices to promote equal opportunities for all students.
A Study on Moral Qualities and Academic Achievements of High School Studentsijtsrd
This study found that Moral qualities and Academic achievements of high School Students A sample of 300 high school students participated in the study. Whilst high school education are able to determine students academic abilities on enrolment limited attention has been given to other qualities. Although there is an understanding of the qualities desired in the high school students, to date there has been limited exploration of high school students personal qualities as they enter high school class and whether these change over time. Practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed. Ms. R. Brindha | Mr. K. Somasundaram ""A Study on Moral Qualities and Academic Achievements of High School Students"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25134.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25134/a-study-on-moral-qualities-and-academic-achievements-of-high-school-students/ms-r-brindha
Attitude Towards Biology And Its Effects On Student S AchievementCassie Romero
This study examined the relationship between attitudes towards biology and student achievement in biology courses among 185 high school students in Iran. The results showed that overall attitude towards biology was not significantly correlated with biology achievement. However, the dimension of "biology is fun for me" was positively and significantly correlated with achievement. There were no significant gender differences in attitude towards biology, but girls had significantly higher achievement in biology than boys. The study suggests making biology curriculum more fun for students in order to foster more positive attitudes towards the subject.
Relationship between Factors Affecting Learning Social Studies and Academic A...ijtsrd
ocial study as a subject becomes a priority area in education, a right attitude towards the subject is the greatest need of the hour. A favourable attitude towards any subject helps the students to learn the subject interestingly and they score good marks. Attitude is one of the important factor that correlates with academic achievement. Study involvement is positively related to student achievement. It is necessary to determine the study involvement among students to understand and guide them. One major factor that facilitates study involvement is the emotional balance the student possesses. The investigator is interested in finding out the learning difficulties faced by students of secondary level in Social study in relation to certain psychological factors such as self concept and locus of control and certain educational factors such as attitude towards learning Social study and study involvement. For the purpose, the investigator had deeply studied the common difficulties faced by secondary level students in Social study. R. Jasmine Prince Catherine | Dr. P. Vedamoney Reeta2 ""Relationship between Factors Affecting Learning Social Studies and Academic Achievement among Secondary School Students in Coimbatore District"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25132.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/25132/relationship-between-factors-affecting-learning-social-studies-and-academic-achievement-among-secondary-school-students-in-coimbatore-district/r-jasmine-prince-catherine
This document discusses a study on the influence of hands-on experimentation in developing science skills among science major students. It provides background on the importance of engaging students in science education through inquiry-based learning and apprenticeship models. The study aims to determine the impact of hands-on experiments on developing skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and data analysis. It also seeks to identify the specific experiments conducted, skills developed, and whether there is a significant relationship between experiments and skills. Based on the findings, the study will propose an intervention plan to optimize science education strategies.
The attitude of students towards the teaching and learning of social studies ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a study on students' attitudes towards teaching and learning social studies concepts in colleges of education in Ghana. The study found that students had a positive overall attitude, as indicated by a mean of means of 2.66 on a 4-point scale. Specifically, students agreed that learning concepts facilitates understanding and supports attitudinal development. However, students disagreed that they show enthusiasm for concepts or find social studies uninteresting due to concepts. Factors like instructional materials and resource persons were found to enhance teaching and learning of concepts, while lack of funds, libraries and resource rooms hindered it.
ABSTRACT- Psychology is the study of mentality and behaviour. Present study is an attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individ-ual. It tries to establish parameters which form the basis for the future research. Study of students’ psychology in the field of education is much more important in terms of career adoption behaviour of students. Present research was based on the survey in the college going students. The candidates were interviewed regarding their selection of the present non-professional course. The results of the study suggested that the conditions and back-ground of the students effect the decision of their career adoption in present study area. Keywords: Profession, Psychology, Faculty, Knowledge
Achievement Motivation Across Gender And Different Academic MajorsKelly Lipiec
This document summarizes a study that investigated differences in achievement motivation across gender and academic majors among college students. The study found that female students had significantly higher achievement motivation than male students. It also found that students majoring in science had significantly higher achievement motivation than students majoring in arts. These results indicate that gender and choice of major play a role in students' levels of achievement motivation.
2019 A Practical Guide To Implement Learner-Generated Digital Media (LGDM) A...Kate Campbell
This document contains summaries of multiple research papers related to science education. The summaries are:
1) A study examined the impact of a university program where pre-service teachers engaged with STEM industry through visits. It found the program significantly improved the teachers' science self-efficacy, motivation, and other dimensions based on surveys of the teachers and their students.
2) A study investigated how primary students' participation in online citizen science projects affected their scientific literacy. Students reported improved skills, understanding, and potential actions from learning. The projects offered opportunities to strengthen students' scientific literacy.
3) A multilevel analysis of 375,756 students across 65 countries found that both teacher-directed and inquiry-based science
This document discusses a study on the differences in self-efficacy levels between male and female students based on their science literacy skills and learning outcomes. The study found that male students had higher levels of self-efficacy than female students across three dimensions: magnitude, strength, and generality. Male students also had superior science learning outcome scores compared to female students. However, the differences in scores between genders were not large. The study suggests developing students' self-confidence to improve their self-efficacy levels and academic performance.
Searching for the relationship between secondary schools students' motivation...inventionjournals
This study aims to search students' science learning motivation in relation with some variables (such as having a separate study room at home and a personal computer) and the effect of motivational factors on students' science achievement. In the study, descriptive corelational survey model has been used to examine students' motivation in relation with some variables and to search the relationship between students' science learning motivation and their TEOG exam scores. The sample of the study consisted of 232 8th grade students attending 3 state secondary schools in Kahramanmaraş during 2013-2014 academic year. Students' motivation level has been determined by administering SMTSL. Students' average scores of the TEOG exam have been considered as their science achievement. The findings show that female students’ motivation level is higher than the male students. In addition, it has been observed that female students’ motivation is higher in sub-categories of active learning strategies, science learning value and achievement goal. There is a direct relationship between the students’ motivation and their TEOG scores. This shows that students with higher levels of motivation have higher success in TEOG.
Ijaems apr-2016-25 BS Mathematics Student’s Personal Beliefs in Engaging in a...INFOGAIN PUBLICATION
This document summarizes a study that explored the changing beliefs of students in the BS Mathematics program at De La Salle Lipa in the Philippines. The study found that most students did not initially choose the BS Mathematics program and had negative beliefs about mathematics due to difficulty and lack of awareness of the program. Through qualitative interviews, students reported that their views changed over time due to the supportive learning environment and experiences provided by the school and teachers. They gained more interest in mathematics and adapted to the program. The findings suggest that providing an encouraging learning environment can help promote positive achievement and reception of mathematics among students.
The document summarizes a study that examined public school teachers' attitudes toward and self-efficacy in conducting action research in Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. The study found that the teachers had an average level of research self-efficacy and tended to have positive attitudes toward research. The very highly influential factors that hindered teachers from conducting action research were work overload leaving little time for research, lack of training in action research, and lack of research centers and specialists to support teachers.
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MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WHITE LATER THICKNESS IN WIRE-...IAEME Publication
White layer thickness (WLT) formed and surface roughness in wire electric discharge turning (WEDT) of tungsten carbide composite has been made to model through response surface methodology (RSM). A Taguchi’s standard Design of experiments involving five input variables with three levels has been employed to establish a mathematical model between input parameters and responses. Percentage of cobalt content, spindle speed, Pulse on-time, wire feed and pulse off-time were changed during the experimental tests based on the Taguchi’s orthogonal array L27 (3^13). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the mathematical models obtained can adequately describe performance within the parameters of the factors considered. There was a good agreement between the experimental and predicted values in this study.
A STUDY ON THE REASONS FOR TRANSGENDER TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
The study explores the reasons for a transgender to become entrepreneurs. In this study transgender entrepreneur was taken as independent variable and reasons to become as dependent variable. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire containing a five point Likert Scale. The study examined the data of 30 transgender entrepreneurs in Salem Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State, India. Simple Random sampling technique was used. Garrett Ranking Technique (Percentile Position, Mean Scores) was used as the analysis for the present study to identify the top 13 stimulus factors for establishment of trans entrepreneurial venture. Economic advancement of a nation is governed upon the upshot of a resolute entrepreneurial doings. The conception of entrepreneurship has stretched and materialized to the socially deflated uncharted sections of transgender community. Presently transgenders have smashed their stereotypes and are making recent headlines of achievements in various fields of our Indian society. The trans-community is gradually being observed in a new light and has been trying to achieve prospective growth in entrepreneurship. The findings of the research revealed that the optimistic changes are taking place to change affirmative societal outlook of the transgender for entrepreneurial ventureship. It also laid emphasis on other transgenders to renovate their traditional living. The paper also highlights that legislators, supervisory body should endorse an impartial canons and reforms in Tamil Nadu Transgender Welfare Board Association.
BROAD UNEXPOSED SKILLS OF TRANSGENDER ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
Since ages gender difference is always a debatable theme whether caused by nature, evolution or environment. The birth of a transgender is dreadful not only for the child but also for their parents. The pain of living in the wrong physique and treated as second class victimized citizen is outrageous and fully harboured with vicious baseless negative scruples. For so long, social exclusion had perpetuated inequality and deprivation experiencing ingrained malign stigma and besieged victims of crime or violence across their life spans. They are pushed into the murky way of life with a source of eternal disgust, bereft sexual potency and perennial fear. Although they are highly visible but very little is known about them. The common public needs to comprehend the ravaged arrogance on these insensitive souls and assist in integrating them into the mainstream by offering equal opportunity, treat with humanity and respect their dignity. Entrepreneurship in the current age is endorsing the gender fairness movement. Unstable careers and economic inadequacy had inclined one of the gender variant people called Transgender to become entrepreneurs. These tiny budding entrepreneurs resulted in economic transition by means of employment, free from the clutches of stereotype jobs, raised standard of living and handful of financial empowerment. Besides all these inhibitions, they were able to witness a platform for skill set development that ignited them to enter into entrepreneurial domain. This paper epitomizes skill sets involved in trans-entrepreneurs of Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State and is a groundbreaking determination to sightsee various skills incorporated and the impact on entrepreneurship.
DETERMINANTS AFFECTING THE USER'S INTENTION TO USE MOBILE BANKING APPLICATIONSIAEME Publication
The banking and financial services industries are experiencing increased technology penetration. Among them, the banking industry has made technological advancements to better serve the general populace. The economy focused on transforming the banking sector's system into a cashless, paperless, and faceless one. The researcher wants to evaluate the user's intention for utilising a mobile banking application. The study also examines the variables affecting the user's behaviour intention when selecting specific applications for financial transactions. The researcher employed a well-structured questionnaire and a descriptive study methodology to gather the respondents' primary data utilising the snowball sampling technique. The study includes variables like performance expectations, effort expectations, social impact, enabling circumstances, and perceived risk. Each of the aforementioned variables has a major impact on how users utilise mobile banking applications. The outcome will assist the service provider in comprehending the user's history with mobile banking applications.
ANALYSE THE USER PREDILECTION ON GPAY AND PHONEPE FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONSIAEME Publication
Technology upgradation in banking sector took the economy to view that payment mode towards online transactions using mobile applications. This system enabled connectivity between banks, Merchant and user in a convenient mode. there are various applications used for online transactions such as Google pay, Paytm, freecharge, mobikiwi, oxygen, phonepe and so on and it also includes mobile banking applications. The study aimed at evaluating the predilection of the user in adopting digital transaction. The study is descriptive in nature. The researcher used random sample techniques to collect the data. The findings reveal that mobile applications differ with the quality of service rendered by Gpay and Phonepe. The researcher suggest the Phonepe application should focus on implementing the application should be user friendly interface and Gpay on motivating the users to feel the importance of request for money and modes of payments in the application.
VOICE BASED ATM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USING ARDUINOIAEME Publication
The prototype of a voice-based ATM for visually impaired using Arduino is to help people who are blind. This uses RFID cards which contain users fingerprint encrypted on it and interacts with the users through voice commands. ATM operates when sensor detects the presence of one person in the cabin. After scanning the RFID card, it will ask to select the mode like –normal or blind. User can select the respective mode through voice input, if blind mode is selected the balance check or cash withdraw can be done through voice input. Normal mode procedure is same as the existing ATM.
IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AMONG...IAEME Publication
There is increasing acceptability of emotional intelligence as a major factor in personality assessment and effective human resource management. Emotional intelligence as the ability to build capacity, empathize, co-operate, motivate and develop others cannot be divorced from both effective performance and human resource management systems. The human person is crucial in defining organizational leadership and fortunes in terms of challenges and opportunities and walking across both multinational and bilateral relationships. The growing complexity of the business world requires a great deal of self-confidence, integrity, communication, conflict and diversity management to keep the global enterprise within the paths of productivity and sustainability. Using the exploratory research design and 255 participants the result of this original study indicates strong positive correlation between emotional intelligence and effective human resource management. The paper offers suggestions on further studies between emotional intelligence and human capital development and recommends for conflict management as an integral part of effective human resource management.
VISUALISING AGING PARENTS & THEIR CLOSE CARERS LIFE JOURNEY IN AGING ECONOMYIAEME Publication
Our life journey, in general, is closely defined by the way we understand the meaning of why we coexist and deal with its challenges. As we develop the "inspiration economy", we could say that nearly all of the challenges we have faced are opportunities that help us to discover the rest of our journey. In this note paper, we explore how being faced with the opportunity of being a close carer for an aging parent with dementia brought intangible discoveries that changed our insight of the meaning of the rest of our life journey.
A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERFO...IAEME Publication
The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of aspects of Organizational Culture on the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System (PMS) in the Health Care Organization at Thanjavur. Organizational Culture and PMS play a crucial role in present-day organizations in achieving their objectives. PMS needs employees’ cooperation to achieve its intended objectives. Employees' cooperation depends upon the organization’s culture. The present study uses exploratory research to examine the relationship between the Organization's culture and the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System. The study uses a Structured Questionnaire to collect the primary data. For this study, Thirty-six non-clinical employees were selected from twelve randomly selected Health Care organizations at Thanjavur. Thirty-two fully completed questionnaires were received.
Living in 21st century in itself reminds all of us the necessity of police and its administration. As more and more we are entering into the modern society and culture, the more we require the services of the so called ‘Khaki Worthy’ men i.e., the police personnel. Whether we talk of Indian police or the other nation’s police, they all have the same recognition as they have in India. But as already mentioned, their services and requirements are different after the like 26th November, 2008 incidents, where they without saving their own lives has sacrificed themselves without any hitch and without caring about their respective family members and wards. In other words, they are like our heroes and mentors who can guide us from the darkness of fear, militancy, corruption and other dark sides of life and so on. Now the question arises, if Gandhi would have been alive today, what would have been his reaction/opinion to the police and its functioning? Would he have some thing different in his mind now what he had been in his mind before the partition or would he be going to start some Satyagraha in the form of some improvement in the functioning of the police administration? Really these questions or rather night mares can come to any one’s mind, when there is too much confusion is prevailing in our minds, when there is too much corruption in the society and when the polices working is also in the questioning because of one or the other case throughout the India. It is matter of great concern that we have to thing over our administration and our practical approach because the police personals are also like us, they are part and parcel of our society and among one of us, so why we all are pin pointing towards them.
A STUDY ON TALENT MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN SELECTED...IAEME Publication
The goal of this study was to see how talent management affected employee retention in the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The fundamental issue was the difficulty to attract, hire, and retain talented personnel who perform well and the gap between supply and demand of talent acquisition and retaining them within the firms. The study's main goals were to determine the impact of talent management on employee retention in IT companies in Chennai, investigate talent management strategies that IT companies could use to improve talent acquisition, performance management, career planning and formulate retention strategies that the IT firms could use. The respondents were given a structured close-ended questionnaire with the 5 Point Likert Scale as part of the study's quantitative research design. The target population consisted of 289 IT professionals. The questionnaires were distributed and collected by the researcher directly. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to collect and analyse the questionnaire responses. Hypotheses that were formulated for the various areas of the study were tested using a variety of statistical tests. The key findings of the study suggested that talent management had an impact on employee retention. The studies also found that there is a clear link between the implementation of talent management and retention measures. Management should provide enough training and development for employees, clarify job responsibilities, provide adequate remuneration packages, and recognise employees for exceptional performance.
ATTRITION IN THE IT INDUSTRY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LINKING EMOTIONAL INTE...IAEME Publication
Globally, Millions of dollars were spent by the organizations for employing skilled Information Technology (IT) professionals. It is costly to replace unskilled employees with IT professionals possessing technical skills and competencies that aid in interconnecting the business processes. The organization’s employment tactics were forced to alter by globalization along with technological innovations as they consistently diminish to remain lean, outsource to concentrate on core competencies along with restructuring/reallocate personnel to gather efficiency. As other jobs, organizations or professions have become reasonably more appropriate in a shifting employment landscape, the above alterations trigger both involuntary as well as voluntary turnover. The employee view on jobs is also afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic along with the employee-driven labour market. So, having effective strategies is necessary to tackle the withdrawal rate of employees. By associating Emotional Intelligence (EI) along with Talent Management (TM) in the IT industry, the rise in attrition rate was analyzed in this study. Only 303 respondents were collected out of 350 participants to whom questionnaires were distributed. From the employees of IT organizations located in Bangalore (India), the data were congregated. A simple random sampling methodology was employed to congregate data as of the respondents. Generating the hypothesis along with testing is eventuated. The effect of EI and TM along with regression analysis between TM and EI was analyzed. The outcomes indicated that employee and Organizational Performance (OP) were elevated by effective EI along with TM.
INFLUENCE OF TALENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE A STUD...IAEME Publication
By implementing talent management strategy, organizations would have the option to retain their skilled professionals while additionally working on their overall performance. It is the course of appropriately utilizing the ideal individuals, setting them up for future top positions, exploring and dealing with their performance, and holding them back from leaving the organization. It is employee performance that determines the success of every organization. The firm quickly obtains an upper hand over its rivals in the event that its employees having particular skills that cannot be duplicated by the competitors. Thus, firms are centred on creating successful talent management practices and processes to deal with the unique human resources. Firms are additionally endeavouring to keep their top/key staff since on the off chance that they leave; the whole store of information leaves the firm's hands. The study's objective was to determine the impact of talent management on organizational performance among the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The study recommends that talent management limitedly affects performance. On the off chance that this talent is appropriately management and implemented properly, organizations might benefit as much as possible from their maintained assets to support development and productivity, both monetarily and non-monetarily.
A STUDY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LOANS OF SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS...IAEME Publication
Banking regulations act of India, 1949 defines banking as “acceptance of deposits for the purpose of lending or investment from the public, repayment on demand or otherwise and withdrawable through cheques, drafts order or otherwise”, the major participants of the Indian financial system are commercial banks, the financial institution encompassing term lending institutions. Investments institutions, specialized financial institution and the state level development banks, non banking financial companies (NBFC) and other market intermediaries such has the stock brokers and money lenders are among the oldest of the certain variants of NBFC and the oldest market participants. The asset quality of banks is one of the most important indicators of their financial health. The Indian banking sector has been facing severe problems of increasing Non- Performing Assets (NPAs). The NPAs growth directly and indirectly affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. It also shows the efficiency of banks credit risk management and the recovery effectiveness. NPA do not generate any income, whereas, the bank is required to make provisions for such as assets that why is a double edge weapon. This paper outlines the concept of quality of bank loans of different types like Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of selected public and private sector banks. This study is highlighting problems associated with the role of commercial bank in financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME). The overall objective of the research was to assess the effect of the financing provisions existing for the setting up and operations of MSMEs in the country and to generate recommendations for more robust financing mechanisms for successful operation of the MSMEs, in turn understanding the impact of MSME loans on financial institutions due to NPA. There are many research conducted on the topic of Non- Performing Assets (NPA) Management, concerning particular bank, comparative study of public and private banks etc. In this paper the researcher is considering the aggregate data of selected public sector and private sector banks and attempts to compare the NPA of Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of public and private sector banks. The tools used in the study are average and Anova test and variance. The findings reveal that NPA is common problem for both public and private sector banks and is associated with all types of loans either that is housing loans, agriculture loans and loans to SMES. NPAs of both public and private sector banks show the increasing trend. In 2010-11 GNPA of public and private sector were at same level it was 2% but after 2010-11 it increased in many fold and at present there is GNPA in some more than 15%. It shows the dark area of Indian banking sector.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL RELATION OF NYLON/BaSO4 POL...IAEME Publication
An experiment conducted in this study found that BaSO4 changed Nylon 6's mechanical properties. By changing the weight ratios, BaSO4 was used to make Nylon 6. This Researcher looked into how hard Nylon-6/BaSO4 composites are and how well they wear. Experiments were done based on Taguchi design L9. Nylon-6/BaSO4 composites can be tested for their hardness number using a Rockwell hardness testing apparatus. On Nylon/BaSO4, the wear behavior was measured by a wear monitor, pinon-disc friction by varying reinforcement, sliding speed, and sliding distance, and the microstructure of the crack surfaces was observed by SEM. This study provides significant contributions to ultimate strength by increasing BaSO4 content up to 16% in the composites, and sliding speed contributes 72.45% to the wear rate
ROLE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA - PROBLEMS AND ...IAEME Publication
The majority of the population in India lives in villages. The village is the back bone of the country. Village or rural industries play an important role in the national economy, particularly in the rural development. Developing the rural economy is one of the key indicators towards a country’s success. Whether it be the need to look after the welfare of the farmers or invest in rural infrastructure, Governments have to ensure that rural development isn’t compromised. The economic development of our country largely depends on the progress of rural areas and the standard of living of rural masses. Village or rural industries play an important role in the national economy, particularly in the rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is based on stimulating local entrepreneurial talent and the subsequent growth of indigenous enterprises. It recognizes opportunity in the rural areas and accelerates a unique blend of resources either inside or outside of agriculture. Rural entrepreneurship brings an economic value to the rural sector by creating new methods of production, new markets, new products and generate employment opportunities thereby ensuring continuous rural development. Social Entrepreneurship has the direct and primary objective of serving the society along with the earning profits. So, social entrepreneurship is different from the economic entrepreneurship as its basic objective is not to earn profits but for providing innovative solutions to meet the society needs which are not taken care by majority of the entrepreneurs as they are in the business for profit making as a sole objective. So, the Social Entrepreneurs have the huge growth potential particularly in the developing countries like India where we have huge societal disparities in terms of the financial positions of the population. Still 22 percent of the Indian population is below the poverty line and also there is disparity among the rural & urban population in terms of families living under BPL. 25.7 percent of the rural population & 13.7 percent of the urban population is under BPL which clearly shows the disparity of the poor people in the rural and urban areas. The need to develop social entrepreneurship in agriculture is dictated by a large number of social problems. Such problems include low living standards, unemployment, and social tension. The reasons that led to the emergence of the practice of social entrepreneurship are the above factors. The research problem lays upon disclosing the importance of role of social entrepreneurship in rural development of India. The paper the tendencies of social entrepreneurship in India, to present successful examples of such business for providing recommendations how to improve situation in rural areas in terms of social entrepreneurship development. Indian government has made some steps towards development of social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, and social in- novation, but a lot remains to be improved.
OPTIMAL RECONFIGURATION OF POWER DISTRIBUTION RADIAL NETWORK USING HYBRID MET...IAEME Publication
Distribution system is a critical link between the electric power distributor and the consumers. Most of the distribution networks commonly used by the electric utility is the radial distribution network. However in this type of network, it has technical issues such as enormous power losses which affect the quality of the supply. Nowadays, the introduction of Distributed Generation (DG) units in the system help improve and support the voltage profile of the network as well as the performance of the system components through power loss mitigation. In this study network reconfiguration was done using two meta-heuristic algorithms Particle Swarm Optimization and Gravitational Search Algorithm (PSO-GSA) to enhance power quality and voltage profile in the system when simultaneously applied with the DG units. Backward/Forward Sweep Method was used in the load flow analysis and simulated using the MATLAB program. Five cases were considered in the Reconfiguration based on the contribution of DG units. The proposed method was tested using IEEE 33 bus system. Based on the results, there was a voltage profile improvement in the system from 0.9038 p.u. to 0.9594 p.u.. The integration of DG in the network also reduced power losses from 210.98 kW to 69.3963 kW. Simulated results are drawn to show the performance of each case.
APPLICATION OF FRUGAL APPROACH FOR PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT - A CASE STUDY OF...IAEME Publication
Manufacturing industries have witnessed an outburst in productivity. For productivity improvement manufacturing industries are taking various initiatives by using lean tools and techniques. However, in different manufacturing industries, frugal approach is applied in product design and services as a tool for improvement. Frugal approach contributed to prove less is more and seems indirectly contributing to improve productivity. Hence, there is need to understand status of frugal approach application in manufacturing industries. All manufacturing industries are trying hard and putting continuous efforts for competitive existence. For productivity improvements, manufacturing industries are coming up with different effective and efficient solutions in manufacturing processes and operations. To overcome current challenges, manufacturing industries have started using frugal approach in product design and services. For this study, methodology adopted with both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary source interview and observation technique is used and for secondary source review has done based on available literatures in website, printed magazines, manual etc. An attempt has made for understanding application of frugal approach with the study of manufacturing industry project. Manufacturing industry selected for this project study is Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. This paper will help researcher to find the connections between the two concepts productivity improvement and frugal approach. This paper will help to understand significance of frugal approach for productivity improvement in manufacturing industry. This will also help to understand current scenario of frugal approach in manufacturing industry. In manufacturing industries various process are involved to deliver the final product. In the process of converting input in to output through manufacturing process productivity plays very critical role. Hence this study will help to evolve status of frugal approach in productivity improvement programme. The notion of frugal can be viewed as an approach towards productivity improvement in manufacturing industries.
A MULTIPLE – CHANNEL QUEUING MODELS ON FUZZY ENVIRONMENTIAEME Publication
In this paper, we investigated a queuing model of fuzzy environment-based a multiple channel queuing model (M/M/C) ( /FCFS) and study its performance under realistic conditions. It applies a nonagonal fuzzy number to analyse the relevant performance of a multiple channel queuing model (M/M/C) ( /FCFS). Based on the sub interval average ranking method for nonagonal fuzzy number, we convert fuzzy number to crisp one. Numerical results reveal that the efficiency of this method. Intuitively, the fuzzy environment adapts well to a multiple channel queuing models (M/M/C) ( /FCFS) are very well.
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Keywords: Women and Science, attitude towards study science, gender and HR
INTRODUCTION
Interest or feeling towards studying science is the students’ disposition towards ‘like’ or
‘dislike’ science while attitude in science means scientific approach assumed by an individual for
solving problems, assessing ideas and making decisions. Review of relevant literature depicts
varying opinions and findings on the students’ attitude towards science and their performances.
According to Keeves (1992) and Postlethwaite and Wiley(1991), attitudes towards science are, in
general, highly favored, indicating strong support for science and the learning of science. Alao
(1988) examined six attitudinal dimensions and their effects on students’ achievement. These
were social implications of science, attitude towards scientific inquiry, normality of scientists,
enjoyment of science and science lessons, leisure interest in science, and career interest in
science. Some studies have indicated that the nature of schooling from the earliest years on, could
shape the capacities and strengths of the growing female (Maccia et al 1975). This implies that if
we have to look at the study of females at higher education e.g. at University level, we have also
to look into the schooling before entering university, by considering at these schools as even
small societies, the values they represent, the form and content of learning offered and the type of
educational environment which existed. To develop more interest at school level in the subject it
showed that the enrolment in the subject at higher level could be increased if more students were
motivated to study the subject at lower levels. Study findings also demonstrated that students’
attitudes and confidence are being affected at all levels, from elementary to college, and that
praise or blame for student attitudes and confidence level cannot be placed at the doorstep of any
one level of education. It is quite clear that an individual teacher has also the opportunity to
change student perceptions about and confidence in learning science. It is also clear that students
can carry attitudes over time and, in the case of negative attitudes, can make learning choices
based solely on avoidance of a particular subject unless that attitude or confidence level is
counteracted by a successful experience. It is the responsibility of educators at all levels to assess
their practice in order to provide an environment that challenges and nurtures the learner,
particularly as it relates to the study of science.
Self confidence towards science, influence of role models and knowledge about the
usefulness of science. Recently, educational researchers have investigated what factors, affect the
success. For this reason, students’ attitudes toward Science have been examined (Oppenheim,
1992). Furthermore, it is very useful to obtain the opinion on students’ tendency to react toward
science, which define their beliefs, preference, decision and sensitive thoughts (Hendley,et
al.,1995). Studies have also indicated that there is no average difference between male and
female intelligence (Saker& Sadker,1994;Birke,1992;Hyne,1996).The only differences that have
been found are in mathematical ability and spatial perception (Hyne,1996). Although, the
difference observed is significant, this reason alone is insufficient to explain the under degree of
under-representation of women in engineering career. Hence it is dangerous to assume that
biological differences are wholly to blame to the lack of female engineering as it is an
unchangeable position. The other predominating pre-tertiary explanation for the lack of females
in science are a lack of preparation from the school level, and female attitudes and early
experiences with science.
This study is being carried out to investigate whether the girls’ interest level and attitude
in different science subjects have changed as they continued their studies beyond secondary
school level.
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METHODOLOGY
A survey model has been used for the study of developmental attitudes of female
students towards science subjects. Data for the study were collected between February 22 and
29, 2012. The questionnaires were distributed to the students during regular class sessions.
Participating students were instructed to read each item carefully, and then to answer the
most desired option from multiple choice questions. All the participants in each class
completed the survey. The study consists of approximately 250 female students of Secondary
school level and pre degree level of academic year 2011-2012. These female students were
from Mody School, MIER, and FET-MITS Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan.
RESEARCH QUESTION
Is there a significant developmental difference in attitudes toward science courses
between Secondary and college level female students?
DATA ANALYSIS
1. There is some significant increment in enjoyment level in all areas of science but it is
more pronounced in Chemistry.
2. Difficulty level has also reduced to significant level and it also more pronounced in
chemistry.
3. Even after learning four years science from their time to opt it as a future course of study
the girls are more interested in Mathematics in comparison to Physics and Chemistry of
science discipline.
4. Girls attitude shows that they always remain less interested in performing experiments.
Some extra efforts have to be done at school level itself to tell them the importance of
hands on experience they will gain after performing experiments. In this way it will
enhance their confidence level. They should not have an attitude just to clear the exam.
Moreover after opting science students are more concentrate on preparation of
competitive exam at school level which is quite theoretical and so parents, society and
teachers as whole give more stress on theory rather than exp.. Therefore, students have
very different attitude regarding experimental courses and importance of experiment in
life.
5. Lack of role model is also one of the reasons to have less motivation in science field.
6. Science lessons have to be made more interesting.
7. There is significant decrement towards laboratory experiments especially in Physics
therefore efforts has to be made to make the laboratory experiments more interesting.
8. There is no significant change in attitude towards derivation but 10-15% more students
feel that derivation are not boring.
9. Our study shows that students are less interested to solve the problem of science in
comparison to mathematics.
10. Study also shows that students are not opting science because her friend.
11. A level of difficulty in handling apparatus is mainly due to difficulty in understanding
the concept in Physics as reflected in point 28 as well.
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12. There is a significant increase in difficulty to handle the experimental apparatus in
Physics. This shows that at school level they are not being allowed to work on apparatus
because in Physics especially in optics setting the apparatus required more practice and
even precautions has to take while observing them.
13. In Physics and Mathematics the trend is just revert from school to UG level.
14. Study shows that less interested Physics text books are being offered to them therefore
this makes the subject overall difficult.
15. There is a significant change in attitude towards science that it helps them to be able to
reason well.
16. The overall interest is decreasing towards science.
17. Overall understanding level in all branches of science has increased at higher level but at
higher level girls student are more interested to help others in Chemistry rather than
Physics and Mathematics. This shows that Chemistry becomes more interesting and
easier for Girls at higher level.
18. Even the Physics is more difficult for the students but there is significant rise in thinking
about the topics and ideas which students learn in Physics.
19. There is a significant amount of sweep in their interest among different subjects of
science at lower and higher level. This study also confirm in the enhancement of
enjoyment level.
20. According to item no. 1 level of enjoyment has increased during their successive studies
at higher level because understanding has increased a lot but in comparison to other
subjects science is less preferred.
21. This study also confirm the result of item 9 which shows that most of the students are
less interested in solving new science problems and that is why they do not like science
assignments.
22. Science students think that Mathematics is more important from their job point of view.
23. Even they want to acquire the jobs which involve mathematics.
24. There is a drastic change in understanding of different subjects at lower and higher level.
Physics is less complicated at lower level and Chemistry at higher level.
25. There is a slight difference in opinion regarding gender attitude towards different science
subject but this outcome not has sufficient basis because the data collected and compiled
from the same gender. Therefore this is just their opinion only.
26. With successive studies the difficulty level in understanding scientific terminology is
slightly becoming more simpler in most of the subjects but still it is needed that more
efforts has to be made in explaining scientific terminology at early stage.
27. There is a significant fluctuation at lower and higher level when students were asked to
use what they have learned to solve new problems in different science subjects.
28. Same as concluded in point 11.
29. There is a need to make the objective more clearly to the students before going to solve
the problem. Object oriented problem solving will make them sure what they are doing
and why they are doing.
30. There is a significant enhancement to do more writing work in science. To develop the
interest we should make the subjects more experimental oriented.
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25.____ is too complicated for most students to 26. ___ is more important for boys than for girls
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CONCLUSION
As the sample data used for this study took account of only 265 girls from two
institutions and from the data analysis we found that the two groups of the girls had different
mean and standard deviation scores with regard to their attitudes towards Physics, Chemistry,
Mathematics and Biology, there was a need to verify whether these results represented a real
difference between two groups or it was a mere chance difference in our collected samples. In
order to confirm this the statistical t-test was performed using t-statistics to determine a
probability value that indicated how likely we had gotten these results by chance. The t-test
results are presented in the table given below:
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As the development of attitudes toward science is a complex function of cultural, biological,
psychological, educational and social factors, it is imperative that an integrated approach
should be adopted for investigating girls’ developmental differences in attitudes toward
science. It is also advocated that a broader sample should be used for future research to give a
more realistic picture of girls’ developmental attitudes toward science. Besides, teacher
should develop positive relationship with students and more classroom activities, which could
involve active teaching- learning process and students’ participation in the class. Secondary
schools and other stakeholders in the education should organize periodic seminars and
workshops for students, parents, teachers and school administrators designed to promote
positive attitudes towards the study of science at school level as well as at higher level.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We gratefully acknowledge the Director, Col. P C Sharma and Mr. Deepak Kumar
Bugalia of Nimawat Secondary school, Fatehpur, and Ms. Renu Seghal, Principal Mody
School for their support and input at early stages of this exercise. We would also like to thank
the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, MITS for the use of facilities to complete
this work.
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