AWARENESS ON UTILIZATION OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN TEACHING CHEMISTRY AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

        The main objective of the study was to find out whether there is any significant relationship between utilization of community resources in teaching chemistry and students achievement. The investigator has adopted the survey method. The population of the present study includes all the high and higher secondary school chemistry handling teachers and their students of Thoothukudi district. Four tools were developed by the investigators were used to study the variables. t-test, F-test were used for analysis of data. The findings of the study were: there is a significant difference between rural and urban secondary level chemistry teachers in environmental resources, there is a significant difference among government, aided and matriculation secondary level chemistry teachers in their utilization of health resources, energy resources, chemical resources, environmental resources, human resources and community resources, there is significant difference between Tamil and English medium standard X students in achievement in Chemistry.