Academic adjustment of class IX students in east Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya

In the present globalized, modernized, technological and scientific world many changes are occurring in the field of education in general and school education in particular. The drastic change in the modernized society will, no doubt continue to make wide and unprecedented demands in the area of occupational, educational, community and family life. Mobility and specialization are distinguishing characteristics of a constantly expanding population. The changes in these two characteristics confront the individual with new developmental tasks in the area of his intellectual, social, emotional, moral and physical development. It has been found by many investigators that had guidance been made available to develop proper adjustment tools made available for the under achievers, they would not have been under achievers and the problem of drop out would not have been so high. This can be done, at least to some extent, if we can make all the students better adjusted so that they can use their abilities in an appropriate manner and in a worthwhile direction. This study is intended to find out the different types of problems faced by the students and to find out the differences if any, between the nature and number of problems of different stratifications of students like boys, girls, students from urban and rural localities; students studying in different schools etc; as very little is known about the relation of students problems to the familial variables like, occupation of father, occupation of mother, educational qualification of father and educational qualification of mother, it is also intended to see whether the level of adjustment of students vary with these familial variables.