STUDY HABITS, APTITUDE AND VOCATIONAL INTEREST OF RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL CHILDREN
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2015-06
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University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad
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A study on “Study habits, aptitude and vocational interest of residential and non residential school children” was carried out during 2014-2015 in Dharwad taluk. A total sample comprised of 240 children of whom 120 were from residential school and 120 were from non-residential school. Study habits scale (Mathur, 2002), aptitude inventory (Bennet et al., 1993), vocational interest record (Kulshrestha, 2011) and socio economic status scale (Aggarwal et al., 2005) were used for data collection. The results revealed that majority of children had good (61.7%) and average (37.5%) study habits among residential and non-residential school. There was significant difference between ordinal position and study habits of residential and non-residential children. In case of aptitude, residential school children performed better in dimensions viz. numerical ability, sentences, scholastic aptitude, abstract, mechanical and verbal reasoning than non-residential school children. Gender wise comparison indicated that boys performed better in mechanical reasoning than girls. Ordinal position and family income had significant relationship with the numerical ability of aptitude whereas, socio-economic status, father’s education and occupation had significant relationship with the abstract reasoning, numerical ability and scholastic aptitude of children. With regard to vocational interest, majority of the residential and non-residential children had low level of vocational interest in all the areas of vocations. Higher the age of children better the choice of vocation among residential and non-residential children. Parent’s education, father’s occupation and family income had positive significant association with vocational interest of residential children. There was highly significant relationship between study habits and vocational interest of residential and non-residential children. Among residential children, study habit was positively and significantly correlated with aptitude areas viz. abstract reasoning, numerical ability and sentences. Among non-residential children, study habit was positively and significantly correlated with clerical speed and accuracy. There was positive and significant correlation between vocational interest and aptitude areas viz. verbal reasoning and scholastic aptitude.
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