OUTCOME BASED LEARNING: THE EFFECT OF EXPERIENTIALLEARNING ACTIVITIES ON THE ATTAINMENT OF SPECIFIC LEARN-ING OUTCOME AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Experiential learning activity is a group activity in which the role of an individ-ual is well deβined and central focus is on the process and not the outcome. Itsprocess, steps, as well as the content involves active participation of both learn-ers and teachers to attain intended speciβic learning outcome. In this presentpaper efforts are made to investigate the impact of experiential learning activ-ity in germinating interests among the students in Chemistry and also to studythe co-relation between the interest in studying Chemistry and their academicachievement. The study is conducted during the academic session 2020-2021.Random sampling method is used to draw the sample. Totally 50 students par-ticipate in the study. Sample consists of 25 boys and 25 girls. Sample is cate-gorized into the study and the control group. Both groups are taught the unit“Redox Reaction” by traditional lecture method but the study group is exposedto the experiential learning activity designed for the experimental redox reac-tion. Data is collected by using two questionnaires. Students Interest Test (SIT)and Chemistry Performance Test (CPT) are administrated. Reliability of Stu-dents Interest Test (SIT) is done Cronbach Alpha test and found to be 0.86 andreliability test for Chemistry Performance Test by Richardson 21 formula andfound to be 0.76. Hybrid research designs such as quasi experiment and surveyare applied to collect the data. Data is collected by using pre-test and post-test.The collected data is analyzed by using statistical tools such as independent t-test and Pearson Product Movement to study the co-relation co-efβicient. Theresult of the present study has noteworthy difference of 0.87 signiβicant at 0.05level. Result of the present paper reveals that the experiential learning activ-ity designed for experimental redox reaction enhances the students' interest inlearning chemistry and has a positive correlation in enhancing their academicperformance to attain the speciβic learning outcomes.