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Research Study – Published: June 12, 2016
Attitude of B.Ed Trainees towards TET Examination and Its Relationship with Attitude towards Teaching
Profession and Academic Achievement.
Vasanthi, A.
ABSTRACT
The present study focused on attitude of B.Ed. trainees towards TET examination and its relationship with
attitude
towards teaching profession and academic achievement. The investigator used the Descriptive survey method
for the
study. The sample consisted of 400 B.Ed. trainees of various B.Ed. institutions in Tamil Nadu especially
Chennai and
Kanchipuram District. Institutions which are affiliated to TNTEU. Simple random sampling techniques were
used for the
selection of sample. The investigator adopted the tool namely; attitude towards TET examination, constructed
and
validated by the investigator, for attitude towards teaching profession the researcher adopted a
standardized tool
constructed and standardized by V.V. Katti and C.S. Bannur (1977). For academic achievement, the researcher
collected
the B.Ed. trainees half yearly examination marks (first semester marks for autonomous students). The scores
were
converted to percentage for statistical calculation. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were
applied.
The major findings revealed a significant difference between the mean scores of B.Ed. trainees of autonomous
and
non-autonomous colleges in the attitude towards TET examination.
Keywords: TET examination, teaching profession attitude, academic achievement, teacher
education, professional competency, educational assessment
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Vasanthi, A. (2016). Attitude of B.Ed Trainees towards TET Examination and Its
Relationship with Attitude towards Teaching Profession and Academic Achievement. Indian Educational
Researcher, 9(1), 11–17.
Received: March 7, 2016;
Revision Received: April 6, 2016;
Accepted: June 12, 2016.
Responding Author: Vasanthi, A. @ drvasanthi@gmail.com
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