Teachers are regarded as one of the most important group of professionals for Nation building. As the teachers are directly involved in the academic, mental, physical, moral, spiritual, and psycho-social improvement of the children, hence it will ultimately cultivate educational system. This study conducted in Jalpaiguri, a Sarva Shiksha Mission (SSM) district of West Bengal since 2002 to estimate and review the level of achievement earned by the Elementary Teachers from the SSM-its objective and purposes methods and approaches. While the level of Efficacy of SSM (Y) had been the dependent/predictor character (Y), the contributory factors had been Age (X1), Education of teachers (X2), Training Experience (X3), Year of Experience (X4), Engagement in other activities (X5), Family Income (X6), Social Participation (X7), Interaction with Head Teacher (X8), Interaction with School Inspectors (X9), Interaction with SSM Personnel (X10), Organizational Interfacing (X11), Involvement in SSM actions (X12), Value Judgment (X13), Response about SSM activities (X14), Use of TL Materials (X15), Exposures to Media (X16), Opinion about present education system (X17), and Challenges to SSM (X18). The statistical analysis demonstrated that while the variables like Education of teachers (X2), Use of TL Materials (X15) had wielded a substantive effect on the determining level of Efficacy of SSM (Y) and variables like Age (X1), Education of teachers (X2), Year of Experience (X4), Engagement in other activities (X5), Response about SSM activities (X14) have been found to exercise significant regressional effect on the level of Efficacy of SSM (Y).
Efficacy of SSM, Social Participation, Organizational Interfacing, Value Judgment and Opinion Matrix etc
