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A Study on Occupational Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Relation To Their Academic Achievement Motivation
* Dr. M.S. Shashikala
* Assistant Professor, New Horizon College of Education, Indira Nagar, Bangalore Introduction The objective of vocational education is to prepare students for vocations and enable them to enter the world of work with the necessary skills. After completing general education the student sets about acquiring new practical knowledge of technical processes, regulating manual operations. Objective of The Study * To find out the relationship between * occupational aspirations and academic achievement motivation of secondary school students * occupational aspirations and social factors of secondary school students Variables * Dependent Variable: Occupational aspirations * Independent Variables : Academic achievement motivation and social factors (Educational and occupational status) * Moderate Variables: Gender and Medium of Instruction Sampling Procedure The stratified random sampling technique was used to select schools and the simple random technique was used for selecting sample. The sample of 400 boys and 400 girls were selected. Tools Used * 'Occupational Aspiration Scale' (OAS) by Grewal (1973) * Academic Achievement Motivation constructed by the researcher based on McCelland's Achievement Motivation dimensions (1953) * Data blank was used to collected of Social factors Statistical Technique : Correlation Analysis Data Analysis And Interpretation Hypothesis: There is no significant correlation between Occupational Aspiration of Secondary school students and Academic Achievement Motivation. See Table 1 The significant positive relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation, Occupational Aspiration and Social Factors at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be concluded that Occupational Aspiration significantly increasing with increase in the Academic Achievement Motivation and also Social Factors of Secondary school students. Hypothesis: There is no significant correlation between Occupational Aspiration of Secondary school students April , 2012

Table-1: Results of correlation coefficient between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation of Secondary school students and Social Factors Variable Occupational Aspiration Academic Achievement Motivation Occupational Aspiration 1.0000 Academic Achievement Motivation 0.8109* 1.0000 Social Factors 0.1891* 0.1244* Educational factors 0.1715* 0.1063* Occupational factors 0.1415* 0.1009* Table-2: Results of correlation coefficient between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school Boys Variable Occupational Aspiration Academic Achievement Motivation Occupational Aspiration 1.0000 Academic Achievement Motivation 0.8074* 1.0000 Social Factors 0.0828 0.0474 Educational factors 0.0644 0.0343 Occupational factors 0.0716 0.0443

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Table-3: Results of correlation coefficient between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Girls Variable Occupational Aspiration Academic Achievement Motivation Occupational Aspiration 1.0000 Academic Achievement Motivation 0.8487* 1.0000 Social Factors 0.2819* 0.2358* Educational factors 0.2717* 0.2128* Occupational factors 0.2024* 0.1858* Table-4: Results of correlation coefficient between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school Kannada medium students Variable Occupational Aspiration Academic Achievement Motivation Occupational Aspiration 1.0000 Academic Achievement Motivation 0.7928* 1.0000 Social Factors 0.0225 -0.0257 Educational factors 0.0186 -0.0220 Occupational factors 0.0169 -0.0185 Table-5: Results of correlation coefficient between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school English medium students Variable Occupational Aspiration Academic Achievement Motivation Occupational Aspiration 1.0000 Academic Achievement Motivation 0.8504* 1.0000 Social Factors 0.2639* 0.2867* Educational factors 0.2431* 0.2464* Occupational factors 0.2150* 0.2499* and Academic Achievement Motivation of Secondary school Boys See Table 2 The significant positive relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be concluded that Occupational Aspiration significantly increasing with increase in the Academic Achievement Motivation of Secondary school students of Boys. Hypothesis: There is no significant correlation between Occupational Aspiration of Secondary school students and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social factors of Secondary school Girls. The significant negative relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Social factors at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected See Table 3 The significant positive relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It
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can be concluded that Occupational Aspiration significantly increasing with increase in the Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school students of Girls. Hypothesis: There is no significant correlation between Occupational Aspiration of Secondary school students and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school Kannada medium students. See Table 4 The significant positive relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be concluded that Occupational Aspiration significantly increasing with increase in the Academic Achievement Motivation of Secondary school students of Secondary school Kannada medium students. The significant negative relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Social factors at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected. Hypothesis: There is no significant correlation between Occupational Aspiration of Secondary school students
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and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school English medium students See Table 5 The significant positive relationship was observed between Occupational Aspiration and Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors at 0.05% level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It means that Occupational Aspiration significantly increasing with increase in the Academic Achievement Motivation and Social Factors of Secondary school

students of Secondary school English medium students. Discussion And Conclusion The better the academic achievement motivation higher is the occupational aspiration. English medium students have more occupational aspiration may be because most of the English medium schools students have sufficient required infrastructure. The student's academic achievement motivation and social status background may help the counselors in understanding problems in a more effective way at this stage

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1 Andrews, H. A. (1973) Personality Pattern and Vocational Choice: A Test of Holland's Theory with Adult Part-time Community College Students. Journal of Counselling Psychology. 20 (5), 482-483. 2. Powell, M and Bloom, V (1962) Development of and Reasons for Vocational Choices of Adolescent's through the High School Years. The Journal of Educational Research. 56(3), 5660.

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