How Self-Concept and Locus of Control Impact on Academic Achievement? : A Study on Secondary School Students of Coochbehar District

Abstract

In present day society’s interest and concern for academic achievement because academic achievement indicate the learner future career as well as social, economical, cultural development. The Present investigation tried to find out the impact of self-concept and locus of control on academic achievement of secondary school students of Coochbehar district. Here, 456 students selected from age group ranged between 14 and 18 drawn from 14 state government schools of Coochbehar district for finding conclusion. Dr. R. K. Saraswat’s Self-concept questionnaire and Roma Pal’s Locus of control scale for adolescents are used to called data from the respondents. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques are used for data collection. The result postulated that self-concept and academic achievement has a weak negative (r= -0.039) relationship, where boys students have a positive correlation (r= 0.025) with academic achievement and the locus of control and academic achievement has a moderate negative (r= -0.509) relationship among the secondary school students of Coochbehar district. This investigation concluded that self-concept and locus of control has influences on students’ academic achievement. Students having internal low locus of control (locus of control) indicating high academic achievement.