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Relationship between Academic Self-Concept, Some Selected Variables and Science Course Achievement.
Vaiyadurai, A.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between students' Academic Self-Concepts and
certain
demographic variables (gender, location of school, type of family, medium of study and type of school) and
the
relationship between academic self-concepts and students' achievement in the course of Science. The study
was
carried out with high school students (N=235). In the study, the data were collected through the Academic
Self-Concept
scale (the reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated by the researchers as 0.89), achievement
scores in the
course of science and a questionnaire for the demographic information’s of the participants. Descriptive
statistics,
t-test, Correlation analysis, were used to analyze the data. The analysis of the data revealed that no
significant
relationships and differences were found in students’ academic self-concepts with respect to gender, school
location,
type of the family and type of school. In the study, positive relationships were found but low between
students’
achievement in the course of science and the Academic Self-Concept.
Keywords: self-concept, science achievement, variables, adolescents, education
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction
in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Vaiyadurai, A. (2016). Relationship between Academic Self-Concept, Some
Selected
Variables and Science Course Achievement. Indian Educational Researcher, 9(2), 10–16.
Received: October 17, 2016;
Revision Received: November 26, 2016;
Accepted: December 12, 2016.
Responding Author: Vaiyadurai, A. @ nvaiyadurai@gmail.com
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Published in Volume 9, Issue 2, July – December, 2016