International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

Pankaj Kumar Paul , Sunil Kumar Baskey

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This study attempts to analyze the impact of co-curricular activities of some secondary level school students in Burdwan district of West Bengal. The study covers two hundred students both in urban and rural areas encompassing students consisting of boys' and girls'. The whole students (N=200) were divided into two equal groups: one is experimental and the other is control group. The pre-test and post-test scores were used to evaluate the impact of co-curricular activities on academic score of the students. The present study also covers one hundred teachers and schools' authorities as well as guardians to find out the relationship between co-curricular activities and academic achievement of students. The results of 'Chi-square' test revealed that co-curricular activities have had a significant positive impact on academic level achievement of students. A binary logit regression model has been used to determine the extent of relationship between co-curricular activities and academic achievement of students. Moreover, students'-t test has also been used to examine the assumed hypothesis whether any variation among pre-test and post-test situations within boys' and girls' as well as urban and rural students exist or not. Finally, the result revealed that the students of experimental group showed better performance than the students of control group as a whole.

Keywords

Co-curricular Activities, Academic Performance, Chi-square Test

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Pankaj Kumar Paul , Naba Kumar Mondal

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The present paper discuss about the importance of teacher education and few suggestion about teacher education to make it in ore interesting and more comprehensive. The study indicates a strong association between teacher education and teaching efficiency of teachers. Again several factors have been found to be strong positive influence on efficiency of teachers. The study further revealed that 60% teachers strongly agree about the emphasis on B.Ed. Syllabus, where 40% teachers partially agreed i.e. more importance should be given to the method paper than in any other papers. Again in case of the improvement of teaching strategies, 70-80% teachers are strongly agreed where as 35-40% teachers are partially agreed. Only 50-55% teachers are strongly agreed against the formative evaluation process.

Keywords

Teacher Education, B.Ed Syllabus, Teaching Strategies, Formative Evaluation

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Pankaj Kumar Paul , Probhat Kumar Pal

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Cooperation is the ischolar_main of cooperative movement, Cooperation is older than cooperative movement as human beings are antecedent to the human civilization. Cooperation is a view or an ideal, "We are all for others" is the main motto of cooperation. In ancient society men accepted the idea of cooperation for their survival against all odds. Mr. Fay defines, "cooperative society is an association for the purpose of joint trading, originating among the week and conducted always in an unselfish spirit, on such terms that all who are prepared to assume the duties of the membership may share in its rewards in proportion to the degree in which they make use of their association", This paper highlights the financial viability, financial performance, efficiency of loan recovery, loan overdue, and profit earning capacity over the eight-year period (from 2002-03 to 2009-10). It also expresses the role of debt capital in the capital structure and its utilization to magnitude the return to the members. Compound rate of growth debt capital, owned capital, total capital and net profit are discussed in this paper. The correlation between debt capital and net profit, owned capital and net profit, total capital and net profit are also discussed in this paper. It signifies the relationship between capital and net profit. The regression slope of net profit on capital is discussed which signifies that magnitude of change of net profit due to change in capital. At the end it is found the management's failure to utilize the debt capital properly. Inefficient loan recovery process reduces the amount of working capital to the society and hence financial capability also. Efficient management is needed to utilize the capital with an efficient manner.

Keywords

Association, Joint Trading, Unselfish Spirit, Compound Rate, Regression Slope, Capital Structure

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