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Influencing Extent of Co-Curricular Activities on the Level of Social Development and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students
Abstract
This study was intended to find out the effect of different co-curricular activities on the social development and academic achievement of students at secondary level. One thousand two hundred and forty-one (1241) students of session 2012-2014 were taken through simple random sampling technique for this study. This study was descriptive in nature having quantitative design. Two research tools were used; the inventory of the co-Curricular activities and the second tool was five points social development Scale (SDS) devised by Sierra, R. A. in (2005) to determine the level of social development in the students. The summative results of 9th grade students were utilized to determine their achievement. The Co-curricular activities (CCA) were categorized into two major parts; sports activities and literary activities. The collected data were analyzed by applying descriptive statistics. The results of the study showed that the students involved too much in sports activities having low academic achievement with high social development, the students involved in literary activities had moderate academic achievement and social development and the students having zero involvement in both types of activities had high academic achievement with low level of social development
Authors
Dr. Muhammad Arshad Javaid
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Education Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan Campus, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Arslan Raheem
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Education Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan Campus, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Anees ul Husnain Shah
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Education Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan Campus, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Co-Curricular Activities, Social Development, Academic Achievement, Secondary, Schools
