Abstract

This study emphasizes the Locus of Control in school students and their progress in Academic Achievement in Zoology. The Locus of Control has a significant role on students’ lives, as their decisions and choices are related to their progress. Internal or external locus of control plays an important role for students to sustain the effectiveness and usefulness of learning performance. The knowledge and experience gained by the students by means of learning the content and the role of demographic factors is vital for increasing student’s performance. In this perspective, this study was carried out by Normative Survey Method. The samples were drawn from Salem Educational District under simple random sampling technique. The sample consists of 324 higher secondary studying students in the second year. Of them 117 were male and the rest 207 were female. The results reveal that the higher secondary students are high in overall locus of control and internal locus of control and above average in ‘academic achievement in zoology. They do not differ in ‘overall locus of control, internal and external locus of control and academic achievement in zoology’ with respect to gender and locality of the school. The students are possessing high relationship between the internal LOC and AAZ.