Open AccessA Study of Scientific Aptitude of Women Teachers in Relation to Social Class and Marital Status
Author(s) -
Ram Naresh,
Himani Upadhyaya
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0404.068
Subject(s) - aptitude , psychology , marital status , class (philosophy) , social class , test (biology) , developmental psychology , mathematics education , social psychology , demography , sociology , population , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law , biology
The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of Social Class and Marital Status on Scientific Aptitude of Women Teachers. 640 Women teachers were selected randomly from the schools out of 640, 160 were for each Social Class (General, OBC, SC and ST) out of each 160 group, 80 were married and 80 were Unmarried. For measurement of the Scientific Aptitude standardized ‘Science Aptitude Test’ developed by A.K.P. Sinha and L.N.K. Sinha, was used. Data were analyzed with help of 4×2 Factorial design of ANOVA. The result revealed that, significant individual effect for social class at the 0.01 level of significance, and interactional effect for social class and marital status at the 0.05 level of significance were found on Scientific Aptitude of Women teachers.