A study of effect of Gender, school resources and Teacher-pupil ratio on achievement of Government and Private school Students at secondary stage of education

Abstract

This study explored the impact of gender, school resources and teacher-pupil ratio on academic achievement of secondary school students. A convenient sample of 1567 students, 770 Government and 797 Private students from fourty schools of Aurangabad, Nanded and Parbhani districts of Maharashtra (India) was used for present study. The VIIIth grade final marks for academic Achievement scores and School assessment Scale were used for data collection, while t-test, Mean and S.D. techniques were used for statistical analysis. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between academic achievement of Government and Private secondary school students on gender and resources basis. The results of analysis showed that Government and Private secondary schools are using comparatively the same school inputs and teacher-pupil ratio. Moreover the students of Government schools had higher academic achievement in comparison to Private managed schools.