Awareness in Elementary School Teachers of Government and Public Schools about Right to Education Act 2009

Abstract

India is a country of villages. For maintaining equality in rural and urban areas, Government of India is providing equal opportunities to common people of both areas through this act. Thus, this act is also a via media between opportunities and the child population lying under 6–14 years age group. Plan of action prepared for children is an initiation towards the improvement in the educational status of children of rural areas, and as a result, the number of dropout students definitely will decrease. Today, we are dealing with the problem of bogging down status of education. Therefore, in the path of providing quality education, it is necessary to check the awareness about this act among citizens of our country. Keeping this view in mind, the researcher selected the most respectable post holders and fortune makers: the teachers, for the study. The researcher has used Right to Education (RTE) Act as independent variable and awareness of government and public school teachers as dependent variables. Normative survey method has been used for the study by the researcher. From list of schools of the district Ghaziabad, the selection of teachers was done through random cluster technique, and 30 elementary school teachers from government school and 30 elementary school teachers from public school were selected. Due to unavailability of the tool for measuring awareness of elementary teachers working in government and public sectors, the researcher has prepared self-made questionnaire for measuring awareness. The researcher prepared 40 items with 4 alternatives in all. For each correct answer of each item, 1 and 0 marks for each incorrect answer were provided to the teacher by the researcher. The reliability of the test was calculated by using Split Half Method and Spearman Brown Method, which scored .71. Face and content validity of questionnaire was calculated by the researcher. Total marks for correct answers was obtained, and obtained scores from government and public schools’ elementary teachers were compared criteria wise. Two techniques were used for comparing both the group of teachers’ statistical techniques ttest and percentage method for comparing both the groups from I to VII criteria of RTE Act. Overall result of the research is that teachers’ working in government sectors is more aware than teachers’ working in public sectors, and male teachers are more aware towards RTE Act 2009 than female teachers.