Academic and Achievement of Primary School Students: A Successful Scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Abstract

The study attempted to know the performance and progress of students enrolled at NFE centresand available infrastructure and human resources of centre in Delhi. In the study 80 students were selected from four centres. The entire study was conducted in 2 phases. In first phase Standard Procedure for the standardization of Achievement Test, Administration of the Standardized tests on a sample of 80 Students was carried out. In second phase the final data was collected on a sample of 80 students. Findings of the study reveal that the learners studied at the centre having adequate facilities 86.50 % marks in math and Hindi and who were studied at the centre having Inadequate learning facilities had less academic achievement (73.60%) than adequate learning centres. The centres which provide more facilities included learning teaching materials (Level wise textbook, Work sheet, Charts, Models, play materials and toys, Primary science and mathematics kit, Maps and globe, Low cost or zero cost learning materials), basic infrastructural facilities etc., performance of learners was found better than fewer Inadequate-learning Centre. The relationship between teacher’s behaviours onacademic achievement of the students, Correlation of Hindi with Math is 0.60, Hindi with Teachers is 0.70 and Math with Teachers is 0.41which positively and highly correlated.