SCIENTIFIC TEMPER AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

The present research was taken up with broad objective to study the scientific temper and academic achievement of rural and urban secondary school students in Kashmir valley. The sample comprised of 400 secondary school students (200 Rural and 200 Urban students). The sample for the study was selected randomly from the different schools of Srinagar (as urban district) and Bandipora (as rural district). The sample was selected in such a way to ensure that every unit of the population could get equal chance to be selected in the sample. Scientific Temper Scale developed by Prof. Nadeem’s and Showkat’s Scientific was administered for the present sample and Academic Achievement was obtained from the previous two years performance records of the sample subjects. Result findings suggest insignificant difference between rural and urban secondary school student`s on Scientific Temper. The results also suggest significant mean difference between rural and urban students on their Academic Achievement and urban student`s have higher Academic Achievement as compared to rural secondary school students.