25Aug 2017

A STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC TEMPER AND SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

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Scientific temper is a personality dimension of a person associated with his/her basic drives to think or work in a systematic and scientific way and Scientific Creativity is the creativity in the field of science. It is the process of formulating hypothesis in scientific situation, testing and retesting these hypotheses and modifying and retesting again and so on. A creative work in science requires experimentation, intuition, hardworking, insight and continuous involvement in thinking and rethinking. This paper addresses the relation between scientific temper and scientific creativity. The rationale for the study was to identify the effect of scientific temper and scientific creativity and to find out the ways through which achievement can be improved particularly in science subject. The study was carried out on a randomly selected sample of 60 students of science belonging to class 11th, selected from 2 senior secondary schools of Faridabad district of Haryana. Scientific temper and scientific creativity tests were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, t- test and Pearson?s correlation were used to analyse and interpret the data and to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that there is significant correlation between scientific temper and scientific creativity of secondary school science students. There is no significant difference between mean score of scientific temper of boys and girls of senior secondary schools. The girls of senior secondary schools were found better in scientific creativity than the boys of these schools.

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[Dr. Umesh Chnadra Kapri (2017); A STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC TEMPER AND SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 1498-1503] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Dr. Umesh Chnadra Kapri
Gold Field college of Education Faridabad

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5209      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5209

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