Importance And Significance Of Scientific Aptitude In Science

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Teaching of everyday science for everybody has become an unavoidable part of general education. It is included in a school’s curriculum for the same reasons as any other subject, but in addition, science inculcates certain special values peculiar to it and which no other subject can provide. But besides satisfying the usual needs for its inclusion as a subject in the curriculum such as intellectual, cultural, moral, aesthetic, utilitarian as well as vocational values—science learning provides training in scientific method and also helps to develop a scientific attitude of mind in the learner. The qualities imbibed by the learner through learning science are of great value to a citizen living in the society. Hence, science is now made a compulsory subject in every system of school education right from the elementary stage. Like-wise, without good scientific aptitude an individual does not perform much in science. The phrase ‘Scientific aptitude’ involves a complex of interacting hereditary and environmental determines which produce the pre-dispositions or abilities spoken as scientific aptitude. The scientific aptitude in use implies that persons …show more content…

Hence, there is a need to measure the scientific aptitude of XI standard students.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
• To study about scientific aptitude among higher secondary students in Erode district.
• To determine the significant difference between the scientific aptitudes of XI standard students based on Gender (boys & girls).
• To determine the significant difference between the scientific aptitudes of XI standard students based on locality (rural and urban).
• To determine the significant difference between the scientific aptitudes of XI standard students based on medium of instruction (English and Tamil

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