A Study of Mental Ability of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to Their General Awareness, Attitude and Teaching Aptitude

Abstract

The study pertains to investigating 'A Study of Mental Ability of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to Their General Awareness, Attitude and Teaching Aptitude'. The authors in this study find out the relationship of mental ability, general awareness, teaching attitude and teaching aptitude. The data was collected through teacher’s general awareness scale, teacher’s mental ability scale, teacher’s teaching aptitude scale and teacher’s attitude scale. These tools were administered on 600 secondary and senior secondary school teachers from 55 schools of Hanumangarh and Sri Ganganager districts of Rajasthan. The sample is from Government and non-Government schools of urban and rural areas. It was noted that (i) There is no significant difference in mental ability on the basis of sex, type of institution area and age. (ii)There is no significant difference in the general awareness on the basis of sex, area and age but non-government teachers have more general awareness than government teachers. (iii)The teaching attitude and aptitude varies according to sex and age but types of institution and area have no effect on it. Male teachers have high teaching attitude but low aptitude than females. The teachers above 40 years have higher teaching aptitude and attitude than teachers below 40 years. (iv)There is a positive and significant correlation between variables mental ability and general awareness and mental ability and teaching aptitude irrespective of age, sex and type of institution. (v)There is no significant correlation between teaching attitude and mental ability with reference to sex but there is positive and significant correlation with respect to age and type of institution.