TEACHING APTITUDE IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF B.ED. STUDENT TEACHERS IN NAGALAND

Abstract

Aptitude has been identified as an important correlate of academic achievement and professional success in certain specific fields. It is an observable fact that people differ from one another and within themselves in their performance in one or the other field of human activity such as leadership, music, art, mechanical work and teaching etc. Therefore, aptitude may be described as a special ability or specific capacity distinct from the general intellectual ability which helps an individual to acquire the required degree of proficiency on achievement in a specific field. In this study, an attempt has been made to know the quality of teachers through the teaching aptitude test battery. Coefficient of correlation has been established between teaching aptitude score and academic achievement (result) of prospective teachers in Nagaland. The investigator has used Analytic survey method and found number of findings: i) there exist significant difference of mean in teaching aptitude between male and female B.Ed. student teachers in total group, Arts and Science stream B.Ed. student teachers. The female student teachers possess better teaching aptitude than the male student teachers, ii) there exist significant and positive relationship between teaching aptitude and academic achievement of total group, Arts and Science stream male and female B.Ed. student teachers etc.