Modernization Attitude among Students of General School, English Medium School, and Madrasa

By : Kishor Roy, Asoke Kumar Saha

Page No: 279-287

Abstract
The purpose of present research was to study the modernization attitude of English medium students, General schools student and Madrasa students. The hypothesis formulated for the study that the modernization attitude of English medium students would have more than general school students and of Madras students. A revised Bengali version (Saha & Roy, 2013) of Overall Modernity Scale (Inkeles & smith, 1976) was used to measure the modernization attitude of the above three categories of students. The study involves 180 participants in whom there are 60 students from General Schools, 60 Students from English Medium Schools and 60 students from Madrasa. To see the modernization attitude the data was analyzed and t-test and ANOVA was computed. The results found that F = 52.33 and t = 4.87 among General school students and Madrasa students, t = -4.99 among English medium school students and General school students and t = -11.11 among English medium school students and madrasa students. The mean value of modernization attitude of English medium School Students, General School Students and Madrass Students are 115.1, 106.78, and 98.52. The results found that the modernization attitudes of all three categories are significantly different, which are discussed in the perspective of three streams of education system of Bangladesh.

Authors :
Asoke Kumar Saha : Professor, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kishor Roy : Assistant Professor — Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.