Achievement in Mathematics and Hindi in Context of Location of Schools and Gender

Achievement in Mathematics and Hindi in Context of Location of Schools and Gender Swati Kumari Dr. Abha Rani Sinha The present study aimed to compare achievement of school students in mathematics and Hindi in context of location of schools and Gender. It was hypothesized that students of urban areas school will show their dominance in mathematics and Hindi performance than students of schools of rural settings. Further, boy students will excel over girls in Mathematics and Hindi subject performance. For the purpose, 150 school students were selected in such a way that 90 were boys and 60 were girls. Further, 90 students were selected from schools of rural setting and remaining 60 from urban setting. The respondents were administered Achievement Test in Mathematics and Hindi respectively. Besides these, a PDS was administered to them to seek their background information. The obtained data were analysed using t-values. It was found that boys excel over girls in the performance of mathematics whereas there was no significance of difference was found between boys and girls groups in terms of Hindi performance. Further, students from urban and rural settings schools differ neither in the performance of Mathematics nor in the performance of Hindi. Thus, it was concluded that performance of Mathematics of boys is better than girls. Moreover, performance of Hindi is independent of gender difference. Further, performance of Mathematics and Hindi is independent of location of schools.