Self-Concept and Academic Achievement of Kendriya Vidyalaya and Missionary School Students

This paper is trying to highlight the status of self-concept and Academic Achievement Kendriya Vidyalaya and Missionary school students. Among the students, generally, self-concept is playing very pivotal role. The self-concept is what the individual think of as, his actual self. The part of the environment in which he is involved is known as his ‘phenomenal self’ and the rest of the environment of which he is aware or to which eh responds is called ‘phenomenal environment’. It is said that some variable is definitely effect on self-concept. Academic achievement is played main role for maintaining self-concept. Zimmerman (1979) and Ringle (1981) found that, to the degree that academic success depends on persistent effort and self-confidence are, however, at some point they have to be supplemented by effective cognitive skills. So, in the both schools the teachers should identify the reasons of low academic achievement and implement activities or program for improving children’s self-concept.