A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS CO-EDUCATION FROM SINGLE-SEX AND CO-EDUCATIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE FROM PUNE CITY

Abstract

The investigation compares and assesses the reactions of students from coeducational institutions with those students from single-sex institutions. The purpose of
selecting such a survey is to explore attitudes of students and their untouched problems in
these types of colleges. Such a survey calls for a questionnaire cum attitude scale
approach as the main tool of research. The research investigated the attitudes of 1106
student’s attitude towards their own type of college in few single-sex and co-educational
junior colleges in Pune city. Using the questionnaire-cum attitude scale and interviews
the researcher obtained quantitative as well as qualitative data. The results indicated that
overwhelming majority pupils from co-education as well as single-sex institutions
preferred the system of co-education with logical reasoning for their preferences.