ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 9

Exploring differences in various dimensions of logical thinking among school going adolescents

  • Author:
  • Prakash Chandra Jena, Navdeep Kaur
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 200 to 210

*School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

**Research Scholar, School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

Online published on 8 October, 2014.

Abstract

Logical thinking and planning skills are vital to a successful global community. Lack of logical thinking skills among adolescents is a major concern. The present study tries to answer a question on, Is there any difference in various dimensions of logical thinking among school going male and female adolescents studying rural and urban schools? It is a descriptive research and survey method was also used. The investigation has selected 200 school going adolescents studying in 10th class, between the age group of 13–15 as samples by using simple random sampling technique. For collecting evidences Logical Thinking Test(a standardized one) by Dr. Surjeet Kumar and Dr. Shikha Tiwari was used. For data analysis, t-test has also used. The findings of the study revealed that there exists no significant difference in difference in various dimensions of logical thinking of male and female adolescents studying in different govt. secondary schools located in rural and urban areas.

Keywords

Logical Thinking, Series/Sequence, Completing the Analogous Pair, Classification, Coding-Decoding