INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT  OF TRIBAL AND NON–TRIBAL STUDENTS IN THE NILGIRIS DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU, INDIA

Dr. Susan George; Dr. S.Rajaguru

Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2016

INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF TRIBAL AND NON–TRIBAL STUDENTS IN THE NILGIRIS DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU, INDIA

Dr. Susan George, Dr. S. Rajaguru

Abstract :

 Tribal education has always been a high priority for the Tamil Nadu State Government in India. Consistent efforts are made to give quality education to the tribal children by state and central government. But, the ultimate goal is not yet reached and several factors obscure the real problem in the tribal education. First and foremost thing is that the children should be properly understood by the teachers and administrators. Scientific diagnosis is most warranted and systematic research is very much needed to understand the academic achievement and intelligence of the tribal children. It is found from this study that academic achievement of the tribal children is similar as like their counterparts belongs to non–trial community. Whereas the intelligence of the non–tribal children are more than the tribal children. The correlation study shows the strong positive relationship between intelligence and academic achievement of tribal and non–tribal children.