“Assessment of Intelligence and Educational...

“Assessment of Intelligence and Educational Attainment among the School Going Adolescence of Burla Town”

Author Name : Urmila Bhaina, Tikaram Patel, Dr. Harapriya Samantaraya

ABSTRACT

Intelligence and education are correlated to each other; one can still act as a moderator with respect to the life outcomes, such as success in life. Intelligence defined as common cognitive problem-solving skill. An intellectual capability concerned in reasoning, perceiving relationships and parallelism, calculation, learn promptly, understanding self-awareness, having emotional knowledge, and problem solving. Objectives of study: (i) To assess the intelligence level of respondents and observe differential in it to assess educational attainment and observed differential in it (ii) To examine influence of socio-economic factors on the level of intelligence (iii) educational attainment and to reveal the impact of intelligence on the educational attainment of respondents. Methodology: Study area: The data was collected from three High School of Sambalpur District of Odisha i.e. Jyoti Bihar High school, Burla Girls High School, and Burla Boy’s high school Burla, Sambalpur District.  Research Design: Purposive sampling has been selected for the study. Universe: The sample was collected from the respondent belonging to Burla Higher Scondary School studying in class 9^th and 10^th coming in age group of 13 to 17 year and the size of samples is 50 from both the sexes. Tool and techniques: A small interview schedule and Group Test of Intelligence Scale developed by the G.C. Ahuja (1971) for the measurement of Intelligence, where its consist of 135 questions in objectives nature. Analysis of Data: The data was analyzed by using statistical tools. Result: Intelligence and education have been studied together and academic achievement in relation to overall achievements and this study reveals that girl’s students were more intelligent than boys whereas normal students are more intelligent rather than malnourished adolescent’s students.

Keywords: Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Achievement, Schooling and Skill development.