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Research Study – Published: June 6, 2017
Attitude of Higher Secondary Students towards Home Environment in Cuddalore District
Lawrence, A. S. A., & Barathi, C.
ABSTRACT
The present study aims to probe the attitude of higher secondary students towards home environment in
Cuddalore district. In this normative survey method was employed. The present study was conducted with the
sample of 290 higher secondary school students in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu by selecting simple
random
sampling technique. Home Environment Inventory (HEI) by Karuna Shankar Misra (1998) was used to collect the
data.
The findings showed that (i) there is a significant difference between higher secondary boys and girls in
their
attitude towards home environment, (ii) there is no significant difference between government and private
higher
secondary school students with respect to home environment, (iii) there is no significant difference in the
attitude of higher secondary students towards home environment in terms of community, and (iv) there is a
significant difference in the attitude of higher secondary students towards home environment in terms of
religion.
Keywords: Home environment, Attitude of students, higher secondary education, Cuddalore
District, Parental involvement
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: Lawrence, A. S. A., & Barathi, C. (2017). Attitude of Higher Secondary
Students towards
Home Environment in Cuddalore District. Indian Educational Researcher, 10(1), 3–10.
Received: March 5, 2017;
Revision Received: April 12, 2017;
Accepted: June 6, 2017.
Responding Author: Lawrence, A. S. A. @ lawrence@gmail.com
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