SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The main objective of this investigation is to find out the level of acquisition of S cience Process Skills and whether there is any significant difference exists in the dimensions of Science Process Skills of high school students with respect to few personal variables. For the purpose of this investigation the researcher has followed normative survey method. Sample consists of 1000 IX th standard students distributed evenly from5 districts of Tamil Nadu (includes boys [466] and girls [534] both Tamil and English medium students) from government, government aided and private schools. Samples were selected using random sampling techniques . The Science Process Skills Inventory was constructed and validated by the researcher used for this investigation. Collected data were analyzed using appropriate statistical techniques. The major findings of the research show that there is very low positi ve correlation (0.230) between the science process skills and achievement in science among high school students.