• MURALEEDHARAN, T.
• RAVEENDRANATHAN, A. K.

This descriptive study aimed to study the differential effect of gender, residential locale and socio-economic status of the family on higher secondary school students’ interest in biology. Data were collected from a simple random sample of 162 higher secondary school students from Kozhikode district of Kerala. Apart from a personal data sheet, the Interest Inventory in Biology (IIB) (Muraleedharan & Raveendranathan, 2018) and the Brief Socio-Economic Status Scale developed by Arjunan (2014) were administered to collect the data needed for the study. Independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and three-way between-subjects ANOVA were performed to test four null hypotheses formulated for the study. Analysis exposed the presence of a significant gender difference in higher secondary school students’ interest in biology, favouring the boys. Residential locale was found to be a significant factor that discriminate higher secondary school students on the basis of their interest in biology. Students from rural area excelled their urban counterparts in their interest in biology. Socio-economic status of the family was also found to be decisive in developing learners’ interest in biology. The selected socio-demographic factors was found to have significant main effect on higher secondary school students’ interest in biology, but the interactive effect of these factors are not significant.

Interest in biology, Socio-demographic factors, Higher secondary school students

"DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON ACADEMIC INTEREST IN BIOLOGY OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c64-c67, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202227.pdf

"DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON ACADEMIC INTEREST IN BIOLOGY OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppc64-c67, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202227.pdf