Gender and Aspect Wise Differences in Academic Resilience of Secondary-Level School Students

Academic resilience is an individual’s ability characterized by the capacity to maintain academic performance and motivation and deal with difficulties and it’s linked to an individual’s higher probability of school success through encountering personal or environmental challenges (Boczkowska, 2019). The study aims to investigate the level and significance of differences in academic resilience based on different aspects and genders of Al-Ameen Mission Belpukur, West Bengal secondary-level students. In this study a standard Academic Resilience Scale developed by Munmi and Yeasmin (2023) was used to collect data and involves purposive sampling, considering 284 class IX and X students, male is 168 and female is 116. Using descriptive and inferential statistics findings are drawn. The major findings of the study revealed that a maximum (46.46%) of secondary-level male school students have an average level of academic resilience, a maximum (46.55 %) of secondary-level female school students have low levels of academic resilience, male and female secondary-level school students were found to have motivation to the same extent and male secondary level students were found to have significantly better academic resilience as compared to female secondary level students. Keywords: Academic Resilience, Secondary Students, Motivation, Cognitive Skill.