Pedagogical Influence on the Exam Phobia of Plus Two Students

Abstract

Pedagogy is the art of teaching. It is important to understand how learning occurs. A teacher cannot just stand in front of the students of any classroom relaying on their knowledge expecting students to listen, understand and leave the lesson filled with knowledge. Pupils need to construct their own understanding with teachers using various teaching methods to engage pupils to enable pupils to access the very best learning in order to shape their own intellectual journey. Teachers being good role models should precede classes because their views on life and behavior guide the student.(i)The major objective of the study was to find out the level of Pedagogical influence of exam phobia of plus two students.(ii)To find out the significant difference in the pedagogical knowledge of Plus two Students with regard to the back ground variables such as gender, locality, and type of school, parental educational qualification and type of parents. (iii)There is a significant relationship between the Pedagogical Influence and Exam phobia of Plus Two Students. The investigator has employed the survey method for this study. The investigators selected the questionnaire as the tool for data collectionin this study. In this study the students studying in higher secondary level at various government and Aided school in Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu, were taken as the population for the study. For this study, a sample of 1000 students were selected using randam sampling technique. The findings of the study are: the Percentage level of Pedagogical Influence Exam phobia is average.(i) There is a significant influence between the Pedagogical Influence based on gender, locality, type of school,and type of parents with regard to Exam Phobia of plus two students.(ii)That there is no significant difference in the Pedagogical Influence on the Exam Phobia of Plus Two Students based on Parental Educational qualification.(iii)the correlation between Pedagogical Influence and Exam Phobia, was statistically significant, r (0.471), N=1000, p = 0.000(p<0.01).