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Research Study – Published: January 12, 2009
REASONING ABILITY IN SCIENCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT
Dr. R. GNANADEVAN
ABSTRACT
Reasoning ability in science is the mental exercise of inferring relationships among facts and phenomenon having a
scientific basis, evaluating evidences and coming to a conclusion. The present study seeks to measure the relationship
between the different aspects of reasoning ability in science and achievement in science of higher secondary students.
Reasoning ability in science scale constructed and standardized by Anuradha Joshi and Bhuban Chandara Mahaptra (1994)
was administered to a random sample of 300 higher secondary students studying in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu,
India. This study reveals that there is a significant relationship between the reasoning ability in science and
achievement in science of higher secondary students.
Keywords: Reasoning ability, science achievement, higher secondary students, inference, evaluation, problem-solving, scientific
reasoning, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: How to cite this article: Gnanadevan, R. (2009, January 19). Reasoning ability in science of higher secondary students
in relation to their science achievement. Indian Educational Researcher, 2(1), 2–10.
Received: December 22, 2008; Revision Received: January 05, 2009; Accepted: January 12, 2009.
Responding Author:Dr. R. GNANADEVAN @ gnanadevanau@yahoo.co.in
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