A STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATION AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Ankita Das; Rajesh V.R.

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i6.2024.3140

Authors

Ankita Das Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Education, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal. India
Dr. V.R. Rajesh Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal. India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i6.2024.3140

Keywords:

Aspiration, Educational Aspiration and Undergraduate

Abstract [English]

The purpose of this present study is to explore the Educational Aspiration of undergraduate students with certain personal and demographic variables. Descriptive survey method is employed for this study. The sample of the study consisted of 100 undergraduate students from the district North 24 Parganas of West Bengal. The educational Aspiration Test developed by Yasmin Ghani Khan (1999) was administered to collect the data. The result reveals that undergraduate students did not differed significantly in their Educational Aspirationwith respect to their Gender, Religion, Residential locality, Type of family, Educational status of fathers and mothers, Occupation of fathers and mothers, academic stream and type of college.

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