A study into the factors related to the academic achievement of higher secondary students in chemistry

Abstract

Higher secondary level is an important stage for all the students. This decided their future career. Now a days, students are more interested to study science so that they can opt engineering or medicine. Even for B.Sc Science group, chemistry is the basic subject. As it has already been mentioned, the higher secondary stage is a preparatory stage for professional course. At this stage both physics and chemistry play a vital role in shaping the future of the younger generation. Then, any lacuna in understanding the concept of chemistry at this stage will not only affect the students choice of career but also affect their performance in higher classes continuously. The chemistry teacher must, therefore, identify the hard nuts in higher secondary chemistry curriculum and finds a solution so as to get the students intellectually involved in the study of chemistry. As a teacher, the investigator understands the problem of students. The teachers ought to have adopted various techniques to make these abstract concepts easy to understand. The higher secondary students face personal problems also which affect their academic progress. Educators should find out the problems faced by the students and help them in finding a suitable solution and counsel them, where they really need. If the problems are ignored, it will lead to deteriorate the academic improvement of pupils. It is notised that very few teachers have time to go deep into the learning problems of students, whereas others have busy schedule with their commitments. In this process, teachers have less time to interact with students and find out their personal problems. If students are helped by the teachers, things will be taken up in a different angle and can be solved out in an easy way. So the investigator, who is also a chemistry teacher, takes up the challenges of finding out the factors affecting the higher secondary students academic achievement in chemistry and arriving at some concrete solutions to solve the problems. The investigator believes that f