RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAREER MARKS AND TEACHING APTITUDE OF B. ED. STUDENTS

The rationale of the study was to explore the relationship between career marks and the teaching aptitude of B. Ed students. A descriptive survey method with quantitative approaches and standardized scales was employed. The sample consisted of 100 B.ed students of Utkal University. The sample was selected randomly which comprised of 50 male and 50 female B.Ed students of NabakrushnaChoudharyCollegeofTeacherEducation, Angul and Radhanath Institute of Advance Studies in Education, Cuttack. The study was correlational. The investigator administered the "Teaching Aptitude Test TAT-DS” developed by Dr. S. S. Dahiya and Dr. L. C. Singh, Agra: National Psychological Corporation,1971. The investigator used statistical techniques, such as product-moment correlation and rank difference correlation to establish the relationship between career marks and teaching aptitude of B.Ed. students and significant differences between the correlation to reject or accept hypotheses formulated at the beginning. The result of the study revealed that there was no significant difference between male and female B.Ed students with respect to their teaching aptitude. Findings also confirmed that there was no significance difference between science and arts students with respect to their career marks. The study also revealed that the relationship between career marks and teaching aptitude has a positive correlation.It's therefore recommended that NCTE should be taken entrance test for selection of students to enroll them in professional course.