A CORRELATION STUDY OF TEACHER EDUCATORS’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF B.ED TRAINEES

The study envisages the correlation between Teacher Educators' emotional intelligence and academic achievement of B.Ed trainees of Thanjavur District. The sample comprised of 1342 Teacher Educators of Thajavur District has been taken by using simple random sampling technique. The independent and dependent variable of the study are emotional intelligence and academic achievement respectively. Data were collected through Normative Survey method. Mean and correlation analysis were computed. The results indicate that the emotional intelligence of the teacher educators' is high, the academic achievement of B.Ed trainees is in first class and the correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement is high.