An Assessment of Level of Attention and Concentration of High School Students in a Selected School, Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract

Background: Attention is the concentration of consciousness upon one object rather than upon on other.Concentration is the mental effort placed on sensory or mental events deliberate mental effort on what is mostimportant in a given situation. Here the study conducted to assess the knowledge or assess the concentration andattention level in the high school students or effectiveness teaching on how to get concentration and attentionfocused on the high school subjects and the a ttention is a important to used to learning new things. It focus on thenatural of learning in education system in human beings without the concentration and attention leading to thefailures of learning some sorts of information at a particular things. The attention is very important so the studyreveals that effective of attention and assesses the level of concentration of high school students.Objectives: To assess the level of attention of high school students, to assess the level of concentration of highschool students and to associate the level of attention and concentration of high school students with their selecteddemographic variablesMaterials and Methods: Quantitative descriptive research approach was used in this study. 140 high school students(8th& 9th standard) was selected by using randomized sampling technique in selected school in Chengalpattu district.A valid study questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic characteristics of high school students,attention was assessed by using attention control scale and concentration was assessed by using concentrationassessment scale of the high school students. Data were analyzed by Inferential and descriptive statistics.Results: The study shows that the mean score was 1.90, standard deviation was 0.615 on the aspect of level ofattention and the mean score was 1.79, standard deviation was 0.560 on the aspect of level of concentration of highschool students. 61.4% of the high school students had average attention, 64.3% of the high school students hadaverage concentration.Conclusion: Assessment on level of attention and concentration of high school students shows that most of thehigh school students had average attention and the most of the high school students had average concentration.