A Descriptive Study to Assess the Level of Knowledge on Behavioral Problems of School Children among Diploma in Education Students in Selected Colleges of Belgaum City, Karnataka

Teachers have always had the ability to determine the tone and direction of a school, to create exemplary world within the classroom. Behavioural problems in school children can be mild, moderate or severe and are at a higher risk of school failure, suicide and mental health problems. If you can see that child's behavioural problems are worsening, take steps to help sooner rather than later. Therefore the researcher is interested to conduct “A Descriptive study to assess the level of knowledge on behavioral problems of school children among diploma in education students in selected colleges at Belgaum”

An Descriptive research approach with Descriptive design in pre experimental design was used to evaluate the knowledge on behavioural problems of school children. The study was conducted in Private diploma in education colleges of Nehru Nagar Belgaum. Purposive, non probability sampling approach was used to select 50 samples. The tool used for the data collection was self administered structured knowledge questionnaire which comprised of 8 items on demographic data and 40 items on behavioural problems of school children. The reliability of the tool was established by Split Half technique, with ‘r’ = 0.88. The tool was administered to 50 diploma in education students. The conceptual frame work adopted for the study was based on Stufflebeams CIPP model. Data gathered was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and chi-square test.

The overall mean percentage of knowledge scores of diploma in education students is 24.88 which is apparently adequate. Hence H₁ is accepted i.e. there will be adequate knowledge scores of diploma in education students on behavioral problems of school children.

There was no association of the selected demographic variables with the level of knowledge scores of diploma in education students at p< 0.05, hence H₂ is rejected. i.e. There will be significant association between the knowledge scores of diploma in education students on behavioral problems of school children with selected demographic variables.

Hence the findings revealed that diploma in education students had moderately adequate knowledge on behavioural problems of school children. Thus the researcher conducted the study to make them aware of common behavioral problems seen among school children.