School climate and academic achievement of higher secondary students

Abstract

School Climate refers to the quality and characteristics of a School life. For the best positive outcome, school is to be organised in a systematic way. Positive School Climate greatly influences the Academic Achievement of the students. The objectives of study are- to study the school climate of Higher Secondary schools, to find out the difference in School Climate with regard to urban and rural area, to study the academic achievement of Higher Secondary Students, to find out the difference in academic achievement with regard to urban and rural area, to find out the relationship between school climate and academic achievement of Higher Secondary students. Descriptive Survey Method has been used in the present study. Investigator has selected 200 higher secondary students from the eight provincialized schools of Kamrup (Metro and Rural) district of Assam which has been selected through the simple stratified random sampling technique. The investigator has found that in both Kamrup Urban and Rural, it has moderate school climate. The study revealed that the co-relation between School Climate and Academic Achievement of the Higher Secondary students found to be positive and statistically significant.