Serving as a Professor of Education in the University of Gour Banga. Address: Department of Education,
University of Gour Banga,
Mokdumpur, Malda,
West Bengal, India - 732103.
<i>The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic edu... more <i>The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. Inclusive education is also a new approach towards educating the children with diverse abilities andlearning difficulties with that of normal ones within the same manner. It seeks to address the learning needsof all children with a specific focus on those who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion. The focus of this paper is to explore the theoretical interrelation between the Inclusive education and Education for all and conclude them with various UNESCO documents and other published articles. The entire documentary analysis in the paper shows the relation between inclusive educationand Education for All with various perspectives. The paper also shows various implications of inclusive Education as a strategy. The theoretical analysis indicates that inclusive education as an integral part of Education for all. </i>
Massive Open Online Course or MOOC is expected to bring a revolution in the distance education no... more Massive Open Online Course or MOOC is expected to bring a revolution in the distance education not only in India but also in the world in the coming days of 21st Century. The term MOOC was coined by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island in the year 2008 in relation to Extended Education and online learning. And only in 2012 it has evolved as a popular mode of learning. Though distance learning was started during 1890s-1920s in the form of correspondence course, the beginning of this century associated distance learning with its e-learning concept. And MOOC is another revolution in the way of the expansion of distance learning and incorporation of ICT and e-learning concept and materials. MOOC or Massive Open Online Course is an online course which is introduced with the aim of massive participation and open access, and that is with the help of web. It is a known fact that Information and Communication Technology especially in the form of using internet has been deve...
The present study was conducted to explore the relation between aggression and academic achieveme... more The present study was conducted to explore the relation between aggression and academic achievement among the higher secondary students. To achieve this goal, 250 students of class XI were selected as the sample from four higher secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The researchers adopted an Aggression Scale developed and standardized by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2004) and academic achievement scores has been collected from the result of Madhyamik Examination of the selected students. The Pearson Product Moment Method was applied to find out the relation between the variables. The study revealed that there is a negative and statistically significant correlation between aggression and academic achievement of the students.
Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies
The focus of this study is to examine the correlation between Self-concept and Mental Health of t... more The focus of this study is to examine the correlation between Self-concept and Mental Health of the higher secondary level students in Alipurduar district. In this paper, two standardized test were adopted namely, Self-concept Scale developed by Singh and Singh (1988) and Mental Health Inventory (MHI) developed by Jagdish and Srivastav (1995) to collect the data from four higher secondary schools among which two are rural and two are urban schools. Significant correlation between self-concept and mental health has been found among total students, male and urban students. It also shows that no significant correlation between self-concept and mental health of female and rural students of higher secondary level..
Attitude is the belief that one has towards people and surroundings. In case of education, studen... more Attitude is the belief that one has towards people and surroundings. In case of education, students’ positive attitude may influence their academic achievement. From the present study, the researchers also highlight that there are some prime factors like anxiety, socio-economical status etc. which may create barrier for academic achievement. In the present investigation, the researchers made an attempt to study the difference, if any, between boys and girls students of minority community in respect to their attitude towards education and academic achievement. The researchers also made an attempt to find out the correlation between attitude towards education and academic achievement. A sample of 257 (127 boys and 130 girls) of secondary level minority students of class-X were selected randomly. Analyzing the data, the result shows that there is no significant difference between boys and girls students in attitude towards education and academic achievement scores. It was also found th...
This paper highlights the initiatives of Bishnois community in protection of environment particul... more This paper highlights the initiatives of Bishnois community in protection of environment particularly in vegetation and wild life. It also focuses the principles of Bishnoism. The Bishnois are one of the first organized proponents of eco-conservation, wildlife protection, and green living. The Bishnois are considered as the first environmentalists of India. They are born nature lovers. They have, for centuries, married eco-conservation with their faith, making it one of the most ecologically relevant orders of today. This paper depicts the Bishonoi movement and concludes that the Bishniosm can be replicated in other parts of the country for conservation of vegetation and wild life.
The present study was undertaken to (i) explore the relation between personality and mental healt... more The present study was undertaken to (i) explore the relation between personality and mental health of higher secondary students and (ii) investigate the gender differences in the personality and mental scores of the higher secondary students. 252 students were randomly selected from four higher secondary schools in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The Five-factor Personality Trait Scale (FPTS) developed by Sarkar & Halder (2014) and Mental Health Inventory developed by Jagadish and Srivastava (2011) were adopted and employed in this research to collect the required data. The study reveals a positive correlation between personality and mental health of higher secondary students. The gender-wise analysis also shows similar results. In personality, gender difference was not found but in mental health scores, boys and girls differed significantly.
The present study was conducted to explore difference in adjustment and academic achievement amon... more The present study was conducted to explore difference in adjustment and academic achievement among the secondary students with respect to their gender and religion and to estimate the relation between adjustment and academic achievement of the students of class IX of Bengali medium secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The researchers adopted an adjustment inventory and developed a teacher made achievement test to collect the required data. They applied the Pearson Product Moment Method to find out the said relation and ANOVA and ttests to find out the difference among the sub-samples. The study, however, did not find any significant difference in adjustment of the students due to their gender and religion. In case of academic achievement, significant difference was found for boy and girl students but there is no difference in academic achievement due to their religion. The study also explored positive...
The present study was conducted to explore the relation between emotional intelligence and mental... more The present study was conducted to explore the relation between emotional intelligence and mental health of the students of class XI (Arts Stream) of Bengali medium higher secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education in Malda District, West Bengal. The researcher adopted an Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) and a Mental Health Inventory for his required data. He applied the Pearson Product Moment Method to find out the said relation and t-test to find out the difference between the correlations. The study, however, explored positive correlation between emotional intelligence and mental health of the students, but did not found any difference between the relation between emotional intelligence and mental health of male and female students.
The present study was undertaken to investigate the relation between personal value and academic ... more The present study was undertaken to investigate the relation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. The objectives of the study also include the presentation of gender-wise correlation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. 800 students were randomly selected from eleven higher secondary schools in Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The Personal Value Scale (PVS) developed by Halder (2018) was adopted and employed in this study to collect the data. The study reveals a positive correlation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. The gender-wise analysis also shows similar results.
The difference between the mother tongue among tribal and non-tribal population is very much prom... more The difference between the mother tongue among tribal and non-tribal population is very much prominent. The tribal child in a normal school hence faces problems in communicating with peers or with teachers. In this paper, the researchers focused on those language problems among tribal and non-tribal students of primary schools in Bankura district. The main objective of the study was to compare between the tribal and non-tribal students’ achievement in languages and science subjects. The study reveals significant differences in language achievement as well as in achievement in science subjects.
Ph.D. Thesis on An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and menta... more Ph.D. Thesis on An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and mental health on the academic achievement of students at the secondary level under two different boards
International Journal of Advanced Research and Development, 2018
The focus of the study was on the attitude of the college level students towards the use of mobil... more The focus of the study was on the attitude of the college level students towards the use of mobile phone within the various departments of UG honours subjects of Raiganj University. The survey method of descriptive research was adopted for the study. Using the simple random sampling technique, 329 students were selected from various under graduate honours students of different subjects from science, language and Arts departments. An Attitude scale was administrated to collect the data. The data were analysed through &#39;t&#39; test and &#39;F&#39; test to conclude the study. The results revealed that the attitude of the students towards the use of mobile phone of different group of male and female, Hindu and Muslim bear no significant difference but the students of different parents&#39; occupations, students belonging to OBC-A and OBC-B community shown the significant difference.
The present researchers made an effort to develop a Multidimensional Scale of Test Anxiety (MSTA)... more The present researchers made an effort to develop a Multidimensional Scale of Test Anxiety (MSTA) for measuring the levels of test anxiety among the students studying in Secondary Level of education in West Bengal. They conducted two study for (i) Development and determining the Internal Consistency, Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Scale and (ii) determining the Convergent Validity of the Scale. In the first study, the scale was validated through the Principal Component Analysis by using Varimax Rotation Method with Kaiser Normalization and the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and the test-retest reliability method. The factor analysis process extracted 14 Factors or Dimensions for 97 items of the final scale. The Kaiser-Meyer- Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy showed a value of 0.726, the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was found 0.956 and the test-retest reliability of the scale was found 0.813. In the second study, the convergent validity of the scale was determi...
The present study was conducted on 400 teachers of secondary schools in three selected districts ... more The present study was conducted on 400 teachers of secondary schools in three selected districts in West Bengal. The teaching effectiveness was estimated by a self-rating scale, namely Jayaraman’s Teacher Effectiveness Scale (JTES) developed by Jayaramanna. The primary aim of this study was to explore the differences in teaching effectiveness of the secondary school teachers in terms of their gender, locality of the schools and their designation. In case of gender and locality of the schools, it was found that teachers are not different in their strategies of teaching aspect and social aspect of teaching effectiveness. But, in personal aspect, professional aspect, intellectual aspect of teaching effectiveness and after all in teaching effectiveness itself, the teachers differed significantly due to their gender and the locality of the schools. In case of the designation, teachers showed differences in all the aspects of teaching effectiveness and also in teaching effectiveness.
The current study was conducted to explore correlation between adjustment and test anxiety among ... more The current study was conducted to explore correlation between adjustment and test anxiety among the secondary students with respect to their gender and locality of the students of secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The investigators adopted an adjustment inventory and test anxiety scale to collect the required data. They applied the PearsonProduct Moment Method to find out the said relation and t-test also usedto find out the difference of correlation coefficients among the sub-samples. The study explored that there is significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment of the secondary students.The study also revealed that there is statistically significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment of the male and female students of secondary education. It was also found that there is statistically significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment...
<i>The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic edu... more <i>The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. Inclusive education is also a new approach towards educating the children with diverse abilities andlearning difficulties with that of normal ones within the same manner. It seeks to address the learning needsof all children with a specific focus on those who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion. The focus of this paper is to explore the theoretical interrelation between the Inclusive education and Education for all and conclude them with various UNESCO documents and other published articles. The entire documentary analysis in the paper shows the relation between inclusive educationand Education for All with various perspectives. The paper also shows various implications of inclusive Education as a strategy. The theoretical analysis indicates that inclusive education as an integral part of Education for all. </i>
Massive Open Online Course or MOOC is expected to bring a revolution in the distance education no... more Massive Open Online Course or MOOC is expected to bring a revolution in the distance education not only in India but also in the world in the coming days of 21st Century. The term MOOC was coined by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island in the year 2008 in relation to Extended Education and online learning. And only in 2012 it has evolved as a popular mode of learning. Though distance learning was started during 1890s-1920s in the form of correspondence course, the beginning of this century associated distance learning with its e-learning concept. And MOOC is another revolution in the way of the expansion of distance learning and incorporation of ICT and e-learning concept and materials. MOOC or Massive Open Online Course is an online course which is introduced with the aim of massive participation and open access, and that is with the help of web. It is a known fact that Information and Communication Technology especially in the form of using internet has been deve...
The present study was conducted to explore the relation between aggression and academic achieveme... more The present study was conducted to explore the relation between aggression and academic achievement among the higher secondary students. To achieve this goal, 250 students of class XI were selected as the sample from four higher secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The researchers adopted an Aggression Scale developed and standardized by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2004) and academic achievement scores has been collected from the result of Madhyamik Examination of the selected students. The Pearson Product Moment Method was applied to find out the relation between the variables. The study revealed that there is a negative and statistically significant correlation between aggression and academic achievement of the students.
Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies
The focus of this study is to examine the correlation between Self-concept and Mental Health of t... more The focus of this study is to examine the correlation between Self-concept and Mental Health of the higher secondary level students in Alipurduar district. In this paper, two standardized test were adopted namely, Self-concept Scale developed by Singh and Singh (1988) and Mental Health Inventory (MHI) developed by Jagdish and Srivastav (1995) to collect the data from four higher secondary schools among which two are rural and two are urban schools. Significant correlation between self-concept and mental health has been found among total students, male and urban students. It also shows that no significant correlation between self-concept and mental health of female and rural students of higher secondary level..
Attitude is the belief that one has towards people and surroundings. In case of education, studen... more Attitude is the belief that one has towards people and surroundings. In case of education, students’ positive attitude may influence their academic achievement. From the present study, the researchers also highlight that there are some prime factors like anxiety, socio-economical status etc. which may create barrier for academic achievement. In the present investigation, the researchers made an attempt to study the difference, if any, between boys and girls students of minority community in respect to their attitude towards education and academic achievement. The researchers also made an attempt to find out the correlation between attitude towards education and academic achievement. A sample of 257 (127 boys and 130 girls) of secondary level minority students of class-X were selected randomly. Analyzing the data, the result shows that there is no significant difference between boys and girls students in attitude towards education and academic achievement scores. It was also found th...
This paper highlights the initiatives of Bishnois community in protection of environment particul... more This paper highlights the initiatives of Bishnois community in protection of environment particularly in vegetation and wild life. It also focuses the principles of Bishnoism. The Bishnois are one of the first organized proponents of eco-conservation, wildlife protection, and green living. The Bishnois are considered as the first environmentalists of India. They are born nature lovers. They have, for centuries, married eco-conservation with their faith, making it one of the most ecologically relevant orders of today. This paper depicts the Bishonoi movement and concludes that the Bishniosm can be replicated in other parts of the country for conservation of vegetation and wild life.
The present study was undertaken to (i) explore the relation between personality and mental healt... more The present study was undertaken to (i) explore the relation between personality and mental health of higher secondary students and (ii) investigate the gender differences in the personality and mental scores of the higher secondary students. 252 students were randomly selected from four higher secondary schools in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The Five-factor Personality Trait Scale (FPTS) developed by Sarkar & Halder (2014) and Mental Health Inventory developed by Jagadish and Srivastava (2011) were adopted and employed in this research to collect the required data. The study reveals a positive correlation between personality and mental health of higher secondary students. The gender-wise analysis also shows similar results. In personality, gender difference was not found but in mental health scores, boys and girls differed significantly.
The present study was conducted to explore difference in adjustment and academic achievement amon... more The present study was conducted to explore difference in adjustment and academic achievement among the secondary students with respect to their gender and religion and to estimate the relation between adjustment and academic achievement of the students of class IX of Bengali medium secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The researchers adopted an adjustment inventory and developed a teacher made achievement test to collect the required data. They applied the Pearson Product Moment Method to find out the said relation and ANOVA and ttests to find out the difference among the sub-samples. The study, however, did not find any significant difference in adjustment of the students due to their gender and religion. In case of academic achievement, significant difference was found for boy and girl students but there is no difference in academic achievement due to their religion. The study also explored positive...
The present study was conducted to explore the relation between emotional intelligence and mental... more The present study was conducted to explore the relation between emotional intelligence and mental health of the students of class XI (Arts Stream) of Bengali medium higher secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education in Malda District, West Bengal. The researcher adopted an Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) and a Mental Health Inventory for his required data. He applied the Pearson Product Moment Method to find out the said relation and t-test to find out the difference between the correlations. The study, however, explored positive correlation between emotional intelligence and mental health of the students, but did not found any difference between the relation between emotional intelligence and mental health of male and female students.
The present study was undertaken to investigate the relation between personal value and academic ... more The present study was undertaken to investigate the relation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. The objectives of the study also include the presentation of gender-wise correlation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. 800 students were randomly selected from eleven higher secondary schools in Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The Personal Value Scale (PVS) developed by Halder (2018) was adopted and employed in this study to collect the data. The study reveals a positive correlation between personal value and academic achievement of higher secondary students. The gender-wise analysis also shows similar results.
The difference between the mother tongue among tribal and non-tribal population is very much prom... more The difference between the mother tongue among tribal and non-tribal population is very much prominent. The tribal child in a normal school hence faces problems in communicating with peers or with teachers. In this paper, the researchers focused on those language problems among tribal and non-tribal students of primary schools in Bankura district. The main objective of the study was to compare between the tribal and non-tribal students’ achievement in languages and science subjects. The study reveals significant differences in language achievement as well as in achievement in science subjects.
Ph.D. Thesis on An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and menta... more Ph.D. Thesis on An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and mental health on the academic achievement of students at the secondary level under two different boards
International Journal of Advanced Research and Development, 2018
The focus of the study was on the attitude of the college level students towards the use of mobil... more The focus of the study was on the attitude of the college level students towards the use of mobile phone within the various departments of UG honours subjects of Raiganj University. The survey method of descriptive research was adopted for the study. Using the simple random sampling technique, 329 students were selected from various under graduate honours students of different subjects from science, language and Arts departments. An Attitude scale was administrated to collect the data. The data were analysed through &#39;t&#39; test and &#39;F&#39; test to conclude the study. The results revealed that the attitude of the students towards the use of mobile phone of different group of male and female, Hindu and Muslim bear no significant difference but the students of different parents&#39; occupations, students belonging to OBC-A and OBC-B community shown the significant difference.
The present researchers made an effort to develop a Multidimensional Scale of Test Anxiety (MSTA)... more The present researchers made an effort to develop a Multidimensional Scale of Test Anxiety (MSTA) for measuring the levels of test anxiety among the students studying in Secondary Level of education in West Bengal. They conducted two study for (i) Development and determining the Internal Consistency, Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Scale and (ii) determining the Convergent Validity of the Scale. In the first study, the scale was validated through the Principal Component Analysis by using Varimax Rotation Method with Kaiser Normalization and the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and the test-retest reliability method. The factor analysis process extracted 14 Factors or Dimensions for 97 items of the final scale. The Kaiser-Meyer- Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy showed a value of 0.726, the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was found 0.956 and the test-retest reliability of the scale was found 0.813. In the second study, the convergent validity of the scale was determi...
The present study was conducted on 400 teachers of secondary schools in three selected districts ... more The present study was conducted on 400 teachers of secondary schools in three selected districts in West Bengal. The teaching effectiveness was estimated by a self-rating scale, namely Jayaraman’s Teacher Effectiveness Scale (JTES) developed by Jayaramanna. The primary aim of this study was to explore the differences in teaching effectiveness of the secondary school teachers in terms of their gender, locality of the schools and their designation. In case of gender and locality of the schools, it was found that teachers are not different in their strategies of teaching aspect and social aspect of teaching effectiveness. But, in personal aspect, professional aspect, intellectual aspect of teaching effectiveness and after all in teaching effectiveness itself, the teachers differed significantly due to their gender and the locality of the schools. In case of the designation, teachers showed differences in all the aspects of teaching effectiveness and also in teaching effectiveness.
The current study was conducted to explore correlation between adjustment and test anxiety among ... more The current study was conducted to explore correlation between adjustment and test anxiety among the secondary students with respect to their gender and locality of the students of secondary schools affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal. The investigators adopted an adjustment inventory and test anxiety scale to collect the required data. They applied the PearsonProduct Moment Method to find out the said relation and t-test also usedto find out the difference of correlation coefficients among the sub-samples. The study explored that there is significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment of the secondary students.The study also revealed that there is statistically significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment of the male and female students of secondary education. It was also found that there is statistically significant negative correlation between test anxiety and adjustment...
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An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and menta... more Ph.D. Thesis on An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and mental health on the academic achievement of students at the secondary level under two different boards
With the progress of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), we are witnessing a new phen... more With the progress of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), we are witnessing a new phenomenon- information disorder on a global scale. It has direct and indirect impacts which are difficult to quantify, but long-term implications on ICT. Information Disorder represents Disinformation, Misinformation, and Mal-information which are creating obstacles in spreading knowledge and information through ICTs. Misinformation is information that is false but is not produced with an intent to harm. It is created when journalists or people share misinterpretation about an event or a rumour without realizing the information is not accurate. Disinformation, on the other hand, is false information that is created with the intention to harm groups or individuals. Mal-information is information that is not false, but is released often illegally with the intent to harm. The chapter explored the concept of information disorder and its three elements and three phases in relation with the Information and Communication Technology.
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An investigation into the impact of achievement motivation test anxiety and mental health on the academic achievement of students at the secondary level under two different boards