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A Study on Attitude towards Homework among High School Level Students of Educational Block Rait District Kangra Himachal Pradesh
 
Dr. Ashwani Kumar (Assist. Prof. Mathematics)
 
ABSTRACT
Continuous comprehensive evaluation has become a boon to students in many ways as it has provided them with various opportunities for overall development of students. The student’s attitude towards homework yields substantial incremental validity in predicting academic performance in terms of continuous comprehensive evaluation. Homework is the work assigned for students by the concerned teacher where the child study the concept well and then able to complete the assigned work. This helps the students to understand the concept better which in turn develops confidence and hence motivated towards a subject. It increases the level of knowledge and improves overall abilities of students. The present study was conducted to know the student’s attitude towards homework among secondary level. Samples of 800 students were selected from Educational Block Rait of  district Kangra HP including HPBOSE and ICSE board students of 400 each. After all the data analysis and interpretation, it is found that 47.5% of the students show average favourable attitude towards homework whereas 16% of the students are having highly favourable and 0% of the students is found to have highly unfavourable attitude towards homework.

Key Words: Attitude, homework, secondary level, HPBOSE and ICSE boards.