A Study of Classroom Environment, Achievement Motivation & Attitude Towards Mathematics

Abstract

Education is a process of human enlightenment and empowerment for the achievement of a better and higher quality of life. Sound and effective system of education results in the unfoldment of learners potentialities, enlargement of their competencies and transformation of their interests, attitudes and values. Recognizing such an enormous potential of education, all progressive societies have committed themselves to the education with an explicit aim of providing "Quality Education for all". In this context, environment existing in our institutions and classrooms has a crucial role. The task of building an enlightened, strong and prosperous nation rests on the shoulders of its who are to be cherished, nurture and developed with tenderness and care. Doyle (1977, 1980) has argued that classroom settings have distinctive properties affecting participants regardless of how students are organized for learning or what educational philosophy the teacher espouses. There are, in other words important elements already is place when teachers and students arive at the classroom door.