ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG SLOW LEARNERS IN HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TIRUCHIRAPALLI CITY

Achievement motivation is essential for all children which helps them to build their confidence and achieve better .School children when they does not have achievement motivation they are not interested in studies that leads to dropouts.The reasons for children disinterest in studies should be found out by the social workers or teachers. The school becomes substitute for home and teacher as substitute for mother. The school education enhances the children for socialisation (C.L.Kundu D.N.Tutoo, 1988). School is an active and formal agency of education. It is an organised institutions in which the potentials of children are shaped out and their behaviours are controlled by the teacher by imparting education. School is a connecting link between Home and the outside world.(Dr.Sanjay Bhattacharya,2008). Raymont says “The school is a Half- way house between the entirely domestic life of early childhood and the larger life awaits the youth when he quits his parental roof