An Assessment of the Educational Problem in Relation to Academic Performance of the Tribal Adolescent Girls Studentst

Author: Harekrishna Mahata & Neerja Dhankar

DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/10.2024-47924295/BIJMRD/Vol -2 / 8/2024/A1

ABSTRACT: The current study has been carried out with to study the Educational problems and academic performance of the tribal adolescent girls and to know about the relationship between the Educational problems and academic performance of the tribal adolescent girls. The researcher has applied the Normative Survey method.The sample for the present study consisted of 500 higher secondary girls students belonging to the tribal community from the schools of Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal. A structured questionnaire is prepared for making a survey on the education problems faced by the adolescent tribal girls student in both rural and urban areas. It is a 5 point likert scale questionnaire consisted of 23 items with the response of Strongly Agree (5), Agree (4), Undecided (3), Disagree (2) and Strongly Disagree (1). It has also some negative items for which the scoring is reversed. For Academic Performance variable adolescent tribal girls students’ grading report/report card was used. Both Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics were analyzed for data analysis. Findings of the study indicate that Academic Performance of the Tribal Adolescent Girls students are not impacted by their educational problems. There is a very weak negative relationship between Academic Performance and Educational Problem.

Keywords: Educational Problems, Academic Performance, Tribal Community, Girls Students.

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