PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS.
- Associate Professor, Department of Educational Technology, TNTEU, Chennai. Tamilnadu.
- Ph.D , Research Scholar, Department of Educational Technology, TNTEU, Chennai. Tamilnadu.
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Problem solving has a special importance in the study of mathematics. The primary goal of mathematics teaching and learning is to develop the ability to solve a wide variety of complex mathematics problems. A problem is an obstruction of some sort to the attainment of an objective, a sort of difficulty which does not enable the individual to reach a goal easily. The present study aims to find out the relationship between problem solving ability and achievement in mathematics of higher secondary students. Fifty five, higher secondary students were randomly selected as sample. Survey method was adopted for the study. The data was collected using a test on problem solving ability (PSA). The t-test, chi-square test and pearson?s product moment correlation were applied to test the hypotheses. Interpretation were drawn based on the findings. Problem solving ability of the higher secondary students was found to be an average and there was a high positive correlation between problem solving ability and achievement in mathematics.
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[M. Kanmani and N. Nagarathinam. (2017); PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Nov). 871-876] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Associate Professor,Department of Educational Technology,Chennai,Tamilnadu
