Assessment of School Climate at Higher Secondary Level in Thiruvallur District

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to assess the school climate at higher secondary level with respect to Gender, Locality, Type of family, Medium of Instruction and Type of management. Survey method was adopted to collect the relevant data for the present study. School Climate Inventory developed and Standardized by Murray (1999) was adopted for the study. The Investigator randomly selected three hundred higher secondary students studying in Government and Private schools in and around Tiruvallur District of Tamilnadu. For analyzing the data mean, standard deviation,‘t’-test and ANOVA are used. The results of the study reveal that most of the students have Moderate level of School climate at higher secondary level. It was found that there is no significance difference between the Male and Female higher secondary school students on School climate mean scores. The urban school students have favorable school climate than rural school students. The findings of the study reveals that there is no significance difference between the Joint family and Nuclear family higher secondary school students on School climate mean scores. The English medium school students have favorable school climate than Tamil medium school students. The result reveals that the private school students have favorable school climate than their counterparts.