A STUDY ON ACADEMIC ACHIVMENT AND VOCATIONAL INTEREST OF SECONDARY STUDENTS OF CHHATTISGARH

Education is an important human activity today. It includes the knowledge and experience acquired by a person in a lifetime. Vocational interest is a tendency of a person toward possible vocational choices and goals. Vocational interest of students depends upon their knowledge, attitudes, values, physical characteristics, and environmental influences. Through this research paper, the researcher has compared the vocational interest of secondary students. The hypothesis of the study was that there are no significant differences among students in relation to their vocational interest in terms of gender, locality, and type of management. The researcher collected a sample of 32 secondary students from 8 different schools of Durg and Raipur districts in the state of Chhattisgarh, using the Random Stratified Sampling technique.