EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING IN DEVELOPING PRACTICAL SKILLS OF SCIENCE

Humans are always interested to know the world around them. The inquiring and curious human mind observed the nature in many ways.The purpose of science teaching is not only to have knowledge of scientific facts, principles and concepts but also to develop scientific attitude and practical skills in students. Activity based education is one of the latest trends in science teaching and learning. The best way to learn science is by doing science. Practical work is generally defined as any teaching and learning activity that involves student's science process skills in observing and manipulating real objects and materials.The major objective of the study was to measure the effectiveness of Activitybased learning in developing practical skills of science of standard 7th students. Quasi Experimental method was adopted for the present study.In this study,non-randomized two group pretest-posttest design was used.In the present study,researcher constructed a rubrics to observe the development of practical skills of students after the use of activitybased learning. The data collected from rubrics was analyzed by employing t-test. The major finding of study was activity-based learning programme is more effective for developing practical skills in science as compared to traditional method of teaching.