SELF EFFICACY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH SHOOL STUDENTS FROM MARGINALISED SOCIETY.

Knowledge has been extolled as super god, as the supreme power. The study aims to find the relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school students from marginalised society. Survey method was adopted for the study, five hundred samples were randomly selected for the study. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significant correlation between self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school students from marginalised society.


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Need And Significance Of The Study:-Students are the future pillars of the society their achievements are very important. The students perceived selfefficacy. They hoped for expected and actually achieved. Self-efficacy tends to improve when students learn to persists through difficulties and overcome failures and their social behaviors. Hence self-efficacy plays a vital role in every aspect of lie, because it helps the students to reach their goals, regulate their studies and improve their selfesteem. A person with a high level of self-efficacy aces the best representation to do a task, handle on obstacle or a challenging situation.
Basically marginalized students come from the low level of livelihood and they need to develop their standard of life. To lead a well-structured life one must have high confidence which will make them to set themselves with challenging goals and maintain commitment. They can recover quickly after the failures. Lack in the sense of selfefficacy affects the self-esteem of the individual. The students should set both long-term and short-term goals. The self-efficacy of marginalized students help to improve the skills like leadership, communication and competitive etc. Hence, the investigator has decided to find is there any relationship between self -efficacy and academic achievement of marginalized high school students.
Objectives Of The Study:-1. To find out the level of self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school students from marginalised society. 2. To find out whether there is any significant relationships between self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school students from marginalised society. 3. To find out whether there is any significance difference in self-efficacy of high school students from marginalised society with respect to religion, gender, nature of school, medium of instruction and locality of school Method Used:-Survey method was used for collecting the data.
Samples Selected:-Five hundred high school students from marginalised society were randomly selected for the study.

Research Instruments Used For The Study:-
A scale on self-efficacy was constructed by Dr.M.Kanmani. Content validity was found for the research instrument. The co-efficient of reliability was found using test-retest method and it was found to be 0.67. Hence the research instrument is found to be highly reliable.

Analysis And Interpretation Of Data:-H1:
There is no significant correlation between self-efficacy and Academic Achievement of high school students from marginalised society.

NS-Not significant
It is inferred from the above table that the calculated 'r' value 0.038 is less than the table value of 'r' (0.159) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is accepted. Therefore there is no significant correlation between self-efficacy and academic achievement of students from marginalised society.
H2: There is no significant difference in Self-Efficacy among Hindu, Christian and Muslim high School students from marginalised society.  (2,147) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference among the mean score of self-efficacy among Hindu, Christian and Muslim of high School students from marginalised society.
H3:There is no significant difference in Self-Efficacy among boys,girl and Co-education of high School students from marginalised society.   (2,147) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference among the mean score of self-efficacy among boys, girl and Co-education of high School students from marginalised society..

H4:
There is no significant difference in Self-Efficacy among Government, Government Aided, Private of high School students from marginalised society.  (2,147) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference among the mean score of self-efficacy among Government, Government Aided, Private of high School students from marginalised society.

H5:
There is no significant difference in Academic Achievement among Hindu, Christian and Muslim high School students from marginalised society.  (2,147) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference among the mean score of the Academic Achievement among Hindu, Christian and Muslim of high School students from marginalised society.
H6:There is no significant difference in Academic Achievement among Government, Government Aided, Private high School students from marginalised society.   (2,147) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference among the mean score of the Academic Achievement among Government, Government Aided, Private of high School students from marginalised society.
H7:There is no significant difference in Academic Achievement between Male and Female of high School students from marginalised society. It is inferred from the above table that the calculated "t" value 3.22 is greater than the table value of (1.98) for df at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference between Male and Female high School students from marginalised society.

H8:
There is no significant difference in Academic Achievement between Tamil and English Medium of high School students from marginalised society. 17.31 s-significant It is inferred from the above table that the calculated"t" value 2.35 is greater than the table value of (1.98) for df at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected.Therefore there is significant difference between Tamil and English Medium of high School students from marginalised society.

H9:
There is no significant difference in Academic Achievement between Urban and Rural area of high School students from marginalised society.

-Significant
It is inferred from the above table that the calculated"t" value 3.02 is greater than the table value of (1.98) for df 148 at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore there is significant difference between Urban and Ruralof high School students from marginalised society.
Findings Of The Study:-1. Self-efficacy and Academic Achievement of high school students from marginalised society did not correlate significantly. 2. There is significant difference in self-efficacy among Hindu, Christian and Muslim high school students from marginalised society. 3. There is significant difference in self-efficacy among Boys, Girls and Co-education high school students from marginalised society. 4. There is significant difference in self-efficacy among Government, Government Aided and Private high school students from marginalised society. 5. There is significant difference in academic achievement among Hindu, Christian and Muslim high school students from marginalised society. 6. There is significant difference in academic achievement among Government, Government Aided and Private high school student from marginalised society. 7. There is significant difference in academic achievement between male and female high school students from marginalised society. 8. There is significant difference in academic achievement between Tamil and English Medium high school students from marginalised society. 9. There is significant difference in academic achievement between urban and rural area high school students from marginalised society.

Conclusion:-
The purpose of the present investigation was to study the level of Self-Efficacy and academic achievements among school students belonging to MARGINALISED. This indicated significant relationship among variables. The study may be found to useful in the field of education. The findings of this study may serve as database for the future research. Therefore this study suits to the above mentioned to implement the findings, recommendations and suggestions in the high school education level.