Achievement in Science of Secondary School Students in Relation to Critical Thinking

Abstract

Critical thinking is an important and vital topic in modern education. All educators are interested in teaching critical thinking to their students. Many academic departments hope that its professors and instructors will become informed about the strategy of teaching critical thinking skills, identify areas in one's courses as the proper place to emphasize and teach critical thinking, and develop and use some problems in exams that test students' critical thinking skills.  

             It is one of the innate capacity and quality which brings about the changes and modifications in the individual, in various aspects of his development.  The main objectives of education to produce pupils who are physically sound, mentally alert, emotionally and culturally stable and acceptable individuals and creative thinkers.  Many factors related to critical thinking influence the performance of the students in the subjects. Hence this study attempts to know the relationship of achievement in science and critical thinking among students. And the found result from this study was that there is no significant relationship in achievement in science and critical thinking.