A STUDY ON PUPIL-TEACHER’S ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION OF LUCKNOW DISTRICT

Abstract

This study probed about pupil-teacher’s academic procrastination of Lucknow district. The study was accomplished with the sample of 120 B.Ed. pupil-teachers of second semester from different colleges affiliated to Lucknow university of Lucknow district. Academic procrastination is one of the most important factors that an individual has to deal. Pupil-teachers are at transitional stage in which an individual is neither a student nor considered to have settled career so it important to study academic procrastination at this stage. In this study, Academic procrastination scale by Dr. Savita Gupta and Liyaqat Bashir was used for data collection. The finding of the study claimed that there is no significant difference in pupil-teacher’s academic procrastination with respect to their gender and administrative nature of colleges, but Science stream pupil-teachers display more academic procrastination as compared to social science stream pupil- teachers. This study is a pathway to deal with key variable in the career of pupil-teachers are the future makers of the nation.