Interest towards physics learning and its effect on the academic performance of students in integrated teacher training Programme

Physics is the one of the interesting subject for the students in the undergraduate and post graduate level. Students prefer to learn Physics because of their own interest or any external factors. Students wants to spend more time on the subject in order to get mastery over it. In the similar manner, to maintain the quality education, the teacher education institutes have the prominent role, they want to focus more on the education part of the subject. Students who were enrolled to the teacher training colleges should have to play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the future science education. This study focussed on finding the interest towards Physics subject of the prospective teachers who are enrolled in the integrated teacher training programmes. The study was conducted among prospective teachers of integrated teacher training institute who are pursuing their MSc. Ed programme in the south India. The study was employed the descriptive survey study method. Sample of the study includes the students from various academic years. Results shows that the boys having more interest towards learning Physics than girls in the integrated teacher training institute and other factors like pre-school education, plus two percentage of marks in Physics, etc. are not depending on the learning of Physics.