PROBLEMSOLVING ABILITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE

The present study was conducted to examine the problem-solving ability of secondary school students in relation to their scientific attitude. A sample of 100 government secondary school students (50 Boys and 50 Girls) was selected randomly from Chandigarh, India. The tools used for conducting the present study were: Problem Solving Ability Test developed by Dubey (2010) and Scientific Attitude Scale developed by Bajwa and Mahajan (2012). The calculated t-value of 1.80 to ascertain difference in Problem Solving Ability of Boys and Girls is less than the critical value of 1.984 at 0.05 level of significance.Similarly the calculated value of the t-value of -0.754 to ascertain difference in Scientific Attitude of Boys and Girls is less than the critical value of 1.984 at 0.05 level of significance. The results of this research study show that there exists no significant difference in the problem solving ability and scientific attitude of boys and girls secondary school students. The calculated coefficient of correlation between Problem Solving Ability and Scientific Attitude was 0.049, which is less than the critical value of 0.195 at 0.05 level of significance. Thus the study also found that there exists no significant correlation between the problem-solving ability and scientific attitude of secondary school students.