A Study of Relationship Between Social Skills and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students

The present is an attempt by the investigator to study the relationship between social skills and academic achievement of secondary school students. Keeping in view the nature of the study, Descriptive Research Method was used. Secondary school students studying in Sonipat district constituted the population of the study. A number of 150 (75 male and 75 female) students were taken as a sample on the basis of random sampling method for the study. Mean, Standard Deviation. ‘t' test and Karl Pearson's Product Moment Coefficient Correlation tests were used to analyze the data. Matson's Evaluation of social skill with youngsters by Sharma (1997) and Academic achievement scores obtained by the students in ninth class annual exam were considered as academic achievement of the students. The findings of the study are (i) it was observed that the female secondary school students are having more social skills than male secondary school students; (ii) it was also noted that the female secondary school students were found to have more academic achievement than male secondary school students; and (iii) there exists a significant and positive relationship between social skills and academic achievement of secondary school students