Academic Stress among Public Secondary School Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Chittoor District, India

Abstract

Learning is a natural phenomenon. It is a continuous process. School learning helps student “how to learn.”. School learning depends on three domains namely, Cognitive domain, Affective domain and Psychomotor domain. The present study examines the Academic Stress of 10th class students among Public Secondary Schools Amid Covid-19 pandemic period. The objectives was to examine the academic stress of 10th class students with regard to Gender, locality, caste and parent education. A sample of 281 students was selected. The study followed simple random sampling method. The collected data were analysed and the results were interpreted by using statistical techniques like Mean, SD, t-test and f-test. boys were found having significantly higher academic stress than the girls, rural students were found having significantly higher academic stress than the urban students, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students were found to have significantly higher academic stress than the OC and BC students, the students belonging to illiterate families were found to have significantly high academic stress than the other counterparts. Teachers should follow the micro-to-macro teaching method (TLM) to explain the lessons.