RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TREATMENT, INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR INTERACTION ON ACHIEVEMENT IN DIAGNOSTIC TEST OF CELL BIOLOGY

Misconceptions are considered as a big obstacle in the path of the students' life. If misconceptions were not removed in the early stages of a student life it can cause various learning difficulties in future. To promote an effective and meaningful learning there is an urgent need to identify such misconceptions from students' mind and to rectify them or to prevent them from occurring in future. From the various investigations and review studies it is found that students' of different ages possess misconceptions in cell biology. The present study was undertaken to study the effect of treatment, intelligence and their interaction on achievement in cell biology by considering pre - achievement in cell biology as a covariate. To study all these necessary factors first the students' misconceptions was identified through a Two – Tier Diagnostic test (DTCB). The sample comprised of 191 students' of IX class selected from the secondary schools of Phagwara city. On the basis of pre-achievement test a relation between the above mentioned factors were carried out to find out the correlation between them.