S, Kaur. (2002). Perception of Principals, Teachers, Students and Community Concerning the Educational Environment of DAV Centenary Public Schools in the State of Punjab and their Attitude Towards that School System. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Punjab University.
The objectives of the study were: (1) To develop an educational environment questionnaire to measure the perception of principals, teachers, students and community. (2) To develop attitude scale to measure the attitudes of principals, teachers, students and community towards DAV centenary public school system. (3) To study and compare the perception of principals, teachers, students and community concerning the emotional environment of DAV centenary public schools of Punjab. (4) To study and compare the attitude of principals, teachers, students and community towards centenary public school system. (5) To study the relationship between perception of educational environment and attitude towards school system of principal, teachers, student and community. (6) To give suggestions to streamline the educational program of DAV centenary public school of Punjab in the directions as would be suggested by the study.
The hypotheses of the study were: (1) Perception of principals, teachers, students and community concerning the educational environment of DAV centenary public schools do not differ significantly from each other. (2) Attitude of principals, teachers, students and community towards DAV centenary public school system do not differ significantly from each other. (3) There is significant relationship between the perception of educational environment of DAV centenary public schools and attitude towards school system of principals, teachers, students and community taken separately from each other.
The sample comprised 28 principals, 195 teachers, 300 students from 31 DAV centenary public school and 121 community member selected with the help of stratified random sampling technique.
Educational Environmental Questionnaire (Test-retest reliability coefficients=0.62, 0.67, 0.72, 0.61 for principals, teachers, students and members of community respectively), and Attitude Scale were developed by researcher for data collection.
The research was descriptive survey in nature. The data were analyzed by t-ratio and correlation technique.
The findings of the study were: (1) There was significant difference about the notion of principals and students regarding school plants and equipments. Similar findings were obtained in case of perception of principals and community, teachers and students, teachers and community, students and community. Mean score of teachers is significantly higher as compared to the mean score of students and community about notion of educational environment but mean score of community was significantly higher as compared to the mean score of students. (2) Significant difference existed between the perception of principals and student about the curriculum co-curricular activities, but mean score of principals was higher as compared to the mean score of students. Similarly the perception of principals was higher as compared to the students. Similar results were obtained regarding the perception of principals and community, teachers and students about the curriculum and co-curricular activities. But no significant difference was found between principals and teachers for curriculum and co-curricular activities. (3) Significant difference was found between the perception of teachers and method of teaching but insignificant difference was found between other groups for it. (4) On the measure of assessment and evaluation, there was insignificant difference in the perception of principals and teachers, principals and community but significant difference existed between other graphs. (5) Significant difference was found between the perception of principals and teachers, principals and students, principals and community on the school’s rules, regulations and policy but insignificant difference was obtained between other groups on the school’s rules, regulations and policy. (6) On the measure of human relationship, there existed insignificant difference in the perception of principals and teachers, teachers and community but significant difference was found between other groups on the measure of human relationship. (7) Principals and teachers, teachers and community, student and community did not differ significantly regarding the opinion of the school but differences were significant between other groups. (8) Insignificant difference existed in the perception of principals and teachers, but significant difference existed between other groups on the over all educational environment of DAV centenary public schools. (9) The attitude of principals, teachers, students and community towards centenary public school system did differ significantly from each other. (10) Significant positive correlation existed between the total attitude of principals towards DAV school system and their total perception regarding the educational environment of DAV centenary public school. (11) Significant positive correlation existed between the total attitude of teachers towards DAV school system and their perception about the total education environment of DAV centenary public school. (12) The correlation between the total attitude of students towards DAV school system and their perception about the total education environment of DAV school was found to be significant. (13) The significant positive correlation existed between the attitude of community and their perception about the total education environment of DAV centenary public schools.
Keyword(s): Perception, Principals, Teachers, DAV Centenary Public Schools, Community, Educational Environment , Attitude towards School