A STUDY ON THE SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN UDUMALPET TALUK

Author Name: Dr. K. Siva Raman

Volume/Issue: 02/08

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/02.2022-26253113/UIJIR

Affiliation:

Assistant Professor, JSR College of Education, Madathukulam, Tiruppur, India

ABSTRACT

The present study aims to find out the extent of relationship between academic achievement of higher secondary students and their school adjustment. Adjustment is the process of finding and adopting modes of behaviour suitable to the environment. Adjustment is the establishment of satisfactory relationship, as representing harmony, conformance, adoption or the like.The process of adjustment is continuous. It starts at one's birth and goes on without stop till one's death. A person as well as environment is constantly changing as also are his needs in accordance with the demands of the changing external environment. Consequently the process or terms of an individual's adjustment can be expected to change from situation to situation.Higher secondary Education is a crucial in the life of the students, as it lays down the foundation for the future. Psychologists have emphasized the supremacy of this adolescent period in life over other stages and points out in single voice that this is the most important period in the life of an individual. Academic achievement is the amount of knowledge derived from learning. The child gains knowledge from the instructions he received at school, class rooms are organized around a set of core activities in which a teacher assigns tasks to pupils and evaluates and compares the quality of their work. The study is carried out on a sample of 300 higher secondary school students in Udumalpet Taluk.\

Key words: School Adjustment, Modes of Behaviour, Academic achievement, Adolescence