International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The present study has been designed to investigate the effect of the self concept on mathematics achievement of secondary level students. The study was conducted over the sample of 100 students of class 10^th of different schools of Hoshangabad MP. Annual high school examination marks of mathematics subject were taken into consideration to measure students’ mathematics achievement and the Self concept Scale of Dr. R.K. Saraswat was used to measure students level of self concept. The ro significant difference found in the mathematics achievement between the high and low physical/social/temperamental/moral/total self-concept level group of students while a significant difference has been found in the mathematics achievement between the high and low educational/intellectual self-concept level group of students of secondary level. The mathematics achievement of high educational/ intellectual self-concept level students is found to be much better than low educational/ intteachual self-concept level students.

Key Words: Mathematics Achievement, Self-concept, Secondary Level.