A Study on Level of Aspiration of sc students at secondary level in the district of Howrah, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Education is backbone of a country because it upgrades the economy of nation. India is a developing country. Today in educational field is the caste based inequality, economic status and cultural characteristics. It has so many indicators such as social relationship, occupation, earning capacity, acquired assets, social position, educational background of the family and political position. It is essential to point out that there is a close relationship between the parents’. Parents’ occupation effect the educational achievement of the child. Therefore, no one can refute the fact that socioeconomic status plays a major role in the development of personality and it effects the academic achievement of the student to a greater extent. Level of occupational aspiration (LOA) has been defined as orientation towards occupational goal. The LOA considered as a perception which is logically a special instance of the concept level of aspiration. Its special nature consists only in the continuum of difficulty. This continuum of difficulty is the occupational hierarchy. The above study drawn to compare level of aspiration of sc students at secondary level on the basis of gender (boys/girls) and location of schools (rural/urban) in the district of Howrah. The descriptive survey type method was followed in present study. 100 sc students are selected as a sample of the study. To find out the relationship about level of aspiration of sc students at secondary level between two categories gender (boys/girls) and location (rural/urban) analyzed by two tailed t-test with the help of SPSS 16.0 software. The findings of the study are the level of aspiration of sc students at secondary level is not influenced on the basis of gender (boys/girls) and location (rural/urban) factor.