Abstract: World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended Ten Life Schools, which are to be developed among the School and College Adolescent students. This is mainly because to face the challenges and to overcome the Problems when they are in the school or college or in life. As per the recommendation of WHO Government of Tamilnadu have taken lot of measures to develop Life Skills among high and higher secondary school students by the past two decades. Presently the investigator has tried to study the perception towards life skills and its influence on academic achievement among high school students. For the study descriptive survey method has been adopted. Four hundred and forty students from twenty two schools have been collected from Villupuram district using simple random samplying technique. Schools include Government, Government Aided and Self financed Types. Descriptive analysis, Differential analysis and correlation analysis have been applied statistically. Hypothesis were tested. The findings clearly show that the level of life skills education among high school students is moderate. The Level of Perception towards life skills education among high school students is moderate. There is a significant difference between life skills education and its influence on academic achievement of high school students. Finally the present study concludes that the perception of life skills is playing a major role to students academic achievement.
Keywords: Perception, Life skills, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Life skills education.
Title: A STUDY ON PERCEPTION TOWARDS LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Author: S. BALASUBRAMANIAN, DR. S KARUPPAIYAN
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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