INFLUENCE OF SELECTED CURRICULAR STRATEGIES ON EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL INTEREST IN PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
The study deals with the relationship among the academic achievement of students and the level of educational interest by using a package of significant curricular strategies on the students selected from primary schools of Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh. Primary education is the foundation of the entire superstructure of educational system. It is at this stage that the child comes into contact with a formal institution and his formal education starts. This is the stage through which eventually every child has to pass. This covers early childhood and continues up to or a little beyond the advent of adolescence. During this stage the child is initiated to speak, listen, read, write, observe, to calculate and to solve problems. In fact, the education which the child receives at this stage provides the foundation for his later physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and social development. In view of this, elementary education deserves the highest priority not only on the ground of social justice and democracy but also for raising the competence of the average workers and for increasing national productivity. In this context, UNESCO document (1971) remarks that the primary education can be seen as the most sensitive area of educational planning and development because pupils who enter the age of five or six and scheduled to leave at twelve or fourteen acquire, at those impressionable ages, thoughts, patterns and habits that will affect them throughout their lives. Today, the society want to make students high achievers in the field of school subject. But this achievement depends on the eductional interest of students. This study has shown that these two variables are positively correlated. If one of these two variables increases, the other one also shows increase and vice-versa.