Influence of Structural Barriers on Adjustment level and Academic Achievement of Secondary School students living below poverty line in Meghalaya
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https://doi.org/10.63671/ijsssr.v4i3.656Keywords:
Pre-Adjustment Scale, Academic Achievement, Adjustment level, Structural BarriersAbstract
Education is one of the important parameters that determines the development of a person within and outside the society. It helps an individual to acquire and enhance various knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and competencies which are needed for sustaining meaningful life in the society. In the present study, the researcher surveyed 943 students comprising of 299 males and 644 BPLstudents from four districts in Meghalaya. The researcher used self designed questionnaire, adopted Pre-Adjustment Scale constructed by Pareek and Rao and used previous year progress report card of the students for the present study. The findings of the result shows that male students have better Academic Achievement and females have better Adjustment level inspite of having the structural barriers.
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