Exploration on Consistency of Interest towards Educational Goals among Students

Authors

  • Ms. B. Neeraja, Ms. R. Swathi, Mr. A. S. Gopalakrishna

Abstract

Interest and perseverance for the long term goals among students are not consistent nowadays as they get socialize with the environment. Consistency of interest and perseverance of efforts are termed as grit. Students are unable to achieve educational goals since they are not able to consistently stick on to goals. The primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between demographic profile of the students and their attitude towards. Consciousness, cognitive self-regulations, self-control, effort regulations, behavioral disaffection, behavioural engagement. The study tries to investigate level of grit among the student with respective to their demographics. The study is intended to analyze the factors affecting grit of the students. Descriptive type of research design is adopted in this study. The study formulated structured standardised questionnaire to collect primary data. Data is collected from 141 post graduate students. Convenience sampling is used to collect data. Demographic profile is analysed using frequency and percentage analysis. And the data collected is analysed using mean, Independent sample T test, Anova and regression. It is found that the independent variables such as organisation based perseverance of effort, self-control, and behavioural engagement, behavioural disaffection determines dependent variable to perceive the educational goal.

Published

2020-02-29

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