Impact of Festivals on Enhancement of Academic Performance of Secondary Level School Students in the District of Burdwan, West Bengal, India

This paper attempts to analyze the opinion of parents, teachers and secondary level school students about the enhancement of academic performance of students in relation to the participation in festivals. The study covers 200 parents encompassing of 100 in ‘Below Poverty Line (BPL) and 100 in ‘Above Poverty Line’(APL) households, 200 teachers comprising of 100 in trained and 100 in untrained categories and 200 students (100 boys and 100 girls) of class- VI, VII,VIII, IX & X both in urban and rural areas of Burdwan district of West Bengal. The results of chi-square test revealed that parents and teachers are in the same level of opinion about the enhancement of academic performance of students in relation to the participation in festivals. It is further revealed that APL category of parents is more in favor of the enhancement of academic performance of students than the BPL category of parents. Again boys and girls are almost in the same level of opinion about the enhancement of academic performance in them. From the results of students’t-test in terms of multiple response analysis of attitudes of students under boys and girls categories, it has been found that there is no difference in attitude of respondents rather it supports the fact that enhancement of academic performance of students is possible after participation in short term festivals.