DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF TOOL ON PROBLEM SOLVING SKILL FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

In the present study, Problem solving skill scale has been validated for the High School Students. First 20 items are taken from standardized tool for validation. An item analysis technique was used for this study. The sample consists of 50 High School Students. They are randomly selected from Kancheepuram District. The Difficulty level and Discrimination index values were used to validate the tool and 14 items were retained. Again researcher constructed 12 items for validation. Same techniques and samples were used and this time 6 items were retained. Thus, totally 20 items were retained for the final study.