STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTIVITY BASED PROGRAM FOR VALUE EDUCATION ON THE MORAL JUDGMENT OF STUDENTS

It is obvious that human life and Science are closely interlinked. Teachers should try their best creating conducive environment to inculcate values in students, right from their school life in order to create a progressive society. Teachers can best generate such an environment during the Science period through various action-oriented programs .While considering the nature of education it is necessary to take into account the moral judgment to enable students to adjust efficiently in all occupations and lifestyle by bringing about a transformation in them. The people who develop in moral judgment are those who love to learn, who seek new challenges, who enjoy intellectually stimulating environments, who are reflective, who make plans and set goals, who take risks, who see themselves in the larger social contexts of history and institutions and broad cultural trends, who take responsibility for themselves and their environs. Therefore Students should be enabled to make their decisions on their own. Teacher should be encouraged to develop their own moral judgment. The objectives of the study were to develop activity based program for developing the moral judgment among students and to implement the activity based program and to measure the effectiveness of the program. The researcher developed activity based program for enhancement of moral judgment. Moral judgment test by Sinha and Varma has been administered on a random sampling of 300 fifth std. students. The data was analyzed using‘t' test. The study showed that the Values could be inculcated through activity-based program and the activity-based program prepared by the researcher was effective for development of moral judgment