MESTON oo : JOURNAL OR oe : RESEARGHIN ae EDUCATIONCONTENTS S.No Article Author(s) Page No. 1 | ASTUDY ON LEARNING STYLES OF M.Ugin Rositta 1 VISUALLY |GED LEARNERS AND MAIN STREAM LEA\ S 2. | AN INQUIRY INTO TEACHING Jasmine Kamala Sunira J 8 COMPETENCY OF MOST ASSERTIVE Dr. Devasahayam Selvakumar MATHEMATICS TEACHERS 3. | PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND P. Vel Murugan 20 SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE RV. Anuja OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS 4 SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND STUDY Dr. A. S. Arul Lawrence 30 SKILLS OF IX STANDARD STUDENTS,HOOL ENVIRONMENT AND STUDY SKILLS SESTON JOURNAL OF RESEARCHLIN EDUCATION SOON SN RD STUDENTS ISSN 0975-6859 VOL IS ISSUE PAGE 30-38 Oe ee eee SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND STUDY SKILLS OF IX STANDARD STUDENTS, *Dr. A. S. Arul Lawrence ABSTRACT: The present study aims to probe the relationship betw adopted survey method. Population ‘een school environment and study skills of IX standard students. The investigator has X students of Cheranmahadevi Educational for the present study consists of the standard I District. The investigator has used simple random technique for selecting sample of different categories from the population. The sample consists of 276 students from different schools in Cheranmahadevi Educational District. The investigator used School Environment Inventory (SEI) by Lawrence, Arul (2012) and Study. Skills Checklist developed by group of professors in Virginia University, USA (2000) for the data collection. For analyzing the collected data, the investigator used mean, SD, 't' test, ANOVA, and Pearson's product moment correlation. The findings show that (i) the level of IX standard students in their school environment and study skills are moderate (ii) , there is significant correlation between the school environment perceived by IX standard students and their study skills. Keywords: school environment, study skills, high school students. INTRODUCTION bliss. In our present societal setup, school Every human being is born with an _ serves as one major instrument in imparting innate urge to know. This, urge to know, is knowledge. It has become mandatory and the seed in the conducive environment,andit obligation for the parents and the government to provide education to all children in our nation. In this scenario, n0 child is entitled to lose the privilege of grows and yields the fruit of knowledge. This knowledge is the source of happiness, joy and peace of mind leading toa state of “Dr. A. S. Arul Lawrence, Assistant Prot Te nn 1 rofessor, School of Educati it mall srllanesen tion, ramil Nadu Open University, Chen 30