A Study of Home Environment and Reasoning Ability among Secondary School Students

Abstract

The improvement of reasoning ability has been highly valued as a major educational goal. This ability is increasingly needed in this era of science and technology and the home environment is one of the important components in developing this ability of the child. This study is an attempted to study the impact home environment on reasoning ability of secondary school students. Inheler, Piaget, Milgram, & Parsons (1958) claims that the development of reasoning ability in individuals have been shown to be correlated with a multitude of variables, some related directly or indirectly in context to Piaget’s cognitive theory of development. The sample of the present investigation was drawn from government and private schools of Jammu city and comprised of 250 students (121 girls and 129 boys). Reasoning Ability Test developed and validated by Dr. L.N. Dubey, Home Environment Inventory developed and validated by Dr. Karuna Shankar Misra was used in the study, and results revealed that the students with high home environment have higher level of reasoning ability in comparison to one’s having low home environment. Furthermore, it was revealed that private school students have higher level of reasoning ability in comparison to the one‘s belonging to the government schools.

Keywords: Reasoning ability, Home environment, Secondary school students