Page No. 41-48
Jolly S. Mathew and N. Prema
SRM University, Tamil Nadu
An exploratory study was designed to ascertain the differences and relationship between
students’ perception of their teachers’ feelings towards them and the variables: selfperception, academic achievement, gender, socio-economic status, the stream of study
and type of school.Altogether 450 school going adolescents of grade XI aged 16-17 years
were randomly selected resulting in 230 female 220 male students from nine different
schools of Chennai. Bilingual (English and Tamil) research instruments namely, “I think
I am” and, “My teacher thinks I am”, were used to collect the data. The study shows that
there was a significant difference in the students’ perception of their teachers’ feelings
towards them among male and female students. There was also a difference in selfperception of students based on the types of educational board. However, the students’
perception of their teachers’ feelings toward them and self-perception are independent of
socio-economic status. Further, there was a statistically significant effect on the stream
of study and type of school on students’ academic achievement. However, we found
no significant effect of gender and socio economic status on academic achievement.