Scheduled Caste High School and College Students in U.P.: A Summary of Findings

Abstract

The Indian Council of Social Science Research brought together in a group of social scientists from all over the country to design and execute a nationwide study of the educational problems of the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes. For this purpose, the ICSSR constituted a Co-ordinating Committee and charged it with the task of designing and executing the study with the help of several other social scientists selected as project directors in different states. The major responsibility of the Co-ordinating Committee was to articulate the research problem, to design sampling plan, to construct data-collection instrument, to centrally computerize and analyse data and to provide broad guidelines to the project directors in their task of conducting the study in their respective states. The responsibility of the project directors was to collect relevant data from secondary sources for the purpose of preparing state-level profiles, to work out specific sampling plans for their state, to translate data collection instrument, in the regional language, to collect and code data, and finally to prepare research reports.