The present study was designed to study the effect of teacher's focused guidance on the attainment of mathematics objectives. Intelligence and locus of control are the primary factors affecting the performance. The locus of control reflects whether individuals attribute their success and failure to their own behavior or other people or luck. Intelligence refers to use of cognitive abilities to solv. abstract problems. Teacher focused guidance means teacher use appropriate teaching strategy keeping into mind the instructional objectives as well as needs of students. To achieve instructional objectives, the teacher chooses specified teaching method, create appropriate classroom environment, interact with the students and provide the feedback to students so that they can achieve specified instructional objectives. In order to conduct the study, six schools from a city of Punjab were selected randomly. From these six schools, 300 students were selected randomly for the study. The scale of locus of control by Anand Kumar and S.N Srivastava, 1966and culture free intelligence test (1949) and capsule of teacher's focused guidance and attainment test of lesson objectives prepared be investigator were administered on selected sample. Relevant means, S. D's, t values & three way (2 X 2 X2 ANOVA) were computed to test the hypotheses. The analysis of data significantly concluded that Teacher's focused guidance and Intelligence significantly contributes to attainment gain in homogeneous group. The students with high internal locus of control have high attainment gain scores in mathematics as compared to student with external locus of control from control group.
Teacher's Focused Guidance, Locus of Control, Intelligence, Objective based attainment
