A STUDY OF MODERNITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF TRIBAL HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS

This study investigated the Modernity and academic achievement of tribal students studding in Higher Secondary schools of district Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. Researcher was used descriptive survey method of research for this purpose. The researcher intended to select600 tribal studentsrandomly from the population as sample from different higher secondary schools of Bilaspur district govern by C.G. board.Sample were selected by multy-stage cluster stratified random sampling technique. Proper representation were given to boys and girls students, government and private higher secondary students.Five dimensional Attitude towards Modernity Scale developed by researcher was used for measuring the modernity of tribal students. Academicachievement of the students was measured by the scores obtained by them in their previous class.Mean, Median S.D., and t- ratio were used for data analysis. The result revealed thatthe modernity of private higher secondary tribal students are significantly better than the modernity of government higher secondary tribal students as well asBoys and girls tribal students are similar in their modernity. In respect to academic achievement the private higher secondary tribal students are better than the government higher secondary tribal students whilehighersecondary tribal boys and girls students are similar in their academic achievement.