A CASE STUDY ON PREVAILING PRACTICES OF CLASSIFICATION SKILL IN SCIENCE AMONG THE STUDENTS OF STANDARD VIII

It is important that science is highly creative and dynamic in nature by which man can attempt to search of knowledge. Many sources to know about science but teachers are one of the main source. Teaching of science is one of the effective way to make the students to understand the scientific concepts and skills. Inculcation of scientific concepts and process skills among students are equally important. National policies and curriculum recommended that the emphasis should be more on process skills than products. It is very important to develop process skills, classification is one of the process skill very essential to develop among students but unfortunately teachers in school giving less importance to develop skill. Hence the present study is an attempt to know prevailing status of students' classification skill in one of the school