A Study on the Relationship between Scientific Reasoning and Achievement in Chemistry of Secondary School Students
Reasoning in psychological perspective may be defined as set of mental processes used to derive inferences or conclusions from premises (Samarapungavan, 2009) Reasoning helps us to generate new knowledge and to organize existing knowledge making it more usable for future mental work. Reasoning therefore becomes central to many forms of thought such as scientific, critical, and creative thinking, argumentation, problem solving, and decision making. Reasoning is an inevitable part of the various aspects of academic inquiry. In this paper, the Investigators tried to find out the relationship between Scientific reasoning and Achievement in Chemistry of Secondary school students for total sample and for the subsample Gender. They also tried to find out whether there exists any significant difference in the Scientific reasoning and Achievement in Chemistry of Secondary school students based on their Gender. Proper statistical techniques were used to collect, standardize and Analyze the data.