Authors: Sony Garwal, Dr. Lotika Amit
Abstract: Adolescence is the period of rapid growth. It is a period of transition when the past will affect the present as well as the future. Family is the basic environment which prepares the young children for future responsibilities, and parental attitude. Family consists of many factors such as culture of family, facility of family, standard of living in family. The growth and development of each person of the family members is dependent on family. In teaching learning phenomena, family circumstances are determining the learning abilities of the child; it leads their academic performance in different stages. Academic achievement depends on their family conditions like socioeconomic status, family type, family adjustment and health conditions etc. family climate is vast term. It includes various components which individually and collectively affects an individual. If family climate is favourable, it could make an average person into a distinct personality, but on the other hand, an unfavourable one could destroy all the chances for success of a brilliant person. The objectives of the study are to find out the difference in academic achievement between male and female students, to find out the impact of family climate on academic achievement of secondary school students. Survey method was used for the study. 378 Secondary school students of age ranged from 14- 18 years for the both males and females from Nainital district were taken as sample. The family climate questionnaire developed by Dr. Beena Shah (2006) has been used to measure the family climate of secondary school students. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there was a significant difference between males and females towards their academic achievement as academic achievement was found to be more among females as compared to males. As far as impact of family climate on academic achievement was concerned among students, some aspects of family climate showed significant differences while some did not.
