Abstract

Education being the sub system of society plays a key role in moldings, reforming shaping, and reconstructing it from time to time. It can be defined as pillar of strength for the entire society as, it is with the process of education that we can create a learning society It, plays an important role in the life of an individual at every stage but also in deterring his status in the society and academic -achievement is the important goal of education in case of students; knowledge, attainment and skill acquired in school students is judged with the help of examination which can be teacher made or standardized tests. So, an attempt has been made in this study to investigate their level of aspiration. While the term achievement refers to the degree of success attained in some specific tasks, especially school performance. The study has been conducted on a sample of 600 9th class students of jammu district. Educational Aspiration scale (EAS) form by Dr. V.P. Sharma & Dr. (KM) Anuradhagupta was used as a tool for measuring Level of Education Aspiration. Level of Educational Aspiration is undoubtedly a research issue sought after by the educational psychologists. In this paper an attempt have been made to study the levels of academic achievement in relation to educational –aspirations of secondary school students. Findings revealed that educational aspirations had a very low relationship with academic-achievement.