A STUDY ON SELF-PERCEPTION OF YOUTH ON EDUCATION

This study attempts to study the self-perception of youth on education. The youth selected for the study are the prospective teachers studying in the colleges of education in Villupuram district. Survey method was adopted for the study and purposive random sampling technique was adapted for selecting 250 samples from the selected nine colleges of education. The investigator used a standardized tool developed by Sneh Chhibba and I. Souri for collecting the data. The statistical techniques percentage analysis ‘t’ test, ANOVA and post-ANOVA  were used to analyse the collected data. Percentage analysis reveals that the level of self-perception of majority of youth is found to be moderate.  ‘t’ test result reveals that there is significant difference in between the male and female youth in their self-perception on education and the male youth have higher level of self-perception than the female youth. But there is no significant difference between (i) the urban and the rural youth and (ii) the B.A. B.Ed. and B.Sc. B.Ed. youth in their self-perception on education. ANOVA test reveals that there is significant difference among the general, SC, ST and Other community youth in their self-perception on education, and the further applied post-ANOVA test reveals that the youth belonging to the General community are found to have higher self-perception on education than the SC, ST and Other community youth.