Social Intelligence and Academic Achievement of College Students - A Study of District Kulgam

Abstract

 The present study is modest effort to compare social intelligence and academic achievement of college students.The  sample of present study consisted of  300 college students divided into male-female dichotomy. The college students were in the age-group of 19-21 years.

The sample is selected on the basis of random sampling technique .The study is designed to find out if there can be any differences in the social intelligence and academic achievement of college students on the basis gender dichotomy. The sample for the present  investigation consists of  300 college students from four colleges of district Kulgam.The data has been collected with the help of N.K.Chadda and UshaGanesan social intelligence scale (1986) and academic achievement of the college students have been taken as aggregate marks which they have obtained in their first and second year examination. The test was administered in the respective colleges of the sample subjects. The investigator personally visited the colleges of the sample subjects and contacted them in their respective colleges. After the collection of data the scoring was done strictly as per the instructions given in the manual of the test. The statistical analysis of the data was done by applying mean, S.D-test and percentage for testing the significance of mean differences among the mentioned groups.