PERCEPTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS REGARDING COGNITIVE AGILITY

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goal-4 (SDG4) emphasizes quality education by nurturing 21^st century skills like communication, collaboration, and information literacy, enhancing cognitive agility of students. The proposed study aims to find the perception of secondary school students regarding cognitive agility and to find the difference of male and female students’ cognitive agility at the secondary school level. The present study was descriptive in nature. The sampling technique used to choose the schools was cluster sampling in which the population is first divided into groups (clusters). The clusters were based on gender and age group. A self-developed scale was used to measure the cognitive agility of students. The validity of the instrument was assured through expert reviews. To check the internal consistency of the instrument, pilot testing was done by collecting data from 60 students. The researcher visited the selected districts physically for data collection. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent samples t-test) to find the difference among the perception of male and female students on their cognitive agility. The findings reflect a relatively consistent level of cognitive agility among the students in these areas. It was also seen that the gender did not have a meaningful impact on cognitive agility of secondary school students.