A Study of Home Environment and Reasoning Ability among Secondary School Students

The improvement of reasoning ability has been highly valued as a major educational goal. This ability is increasingly needed in this era of science and technology and the home environment is one of the important components in developing this ability of the child. This study is an attempted to study the impact home environment on reasoning ability of secondary school students. Inheler, Piaget, Milgram, & Parsons (1958) claims that the development of reasoning ability in individuals have been shown to be correlated with a multitude of variables, some related directly or indirectly in context to Piaget’s cognitive theory of development. The sample of the present investigation was drawn from government and private schools of Jammu city and comprised of 250 students (121 girls and 129 boys). Reasoning Ability Test developed and validated by Dr. L.N. Dubey, Home Environment Inventory developed and validated by Dr. Karuna Shankar Misra was used in the study, and results revealed that the students with high home environment have higher level of reasoning ability in comparison to one’s having low home environment. Furthermore, it was revealed that private school students have higher level of reasoning ability in comparison to the one‘s belonging to the government schools. Keywords: Reasoning ability, Home environment, Secondary school student

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Not AvailableThe present study was undertaken to gain insight on the physiological basis underlying the constraints in attaining maturity of endangered golden mahseer (Tor putitora) in captivity. Selected hormone levels and stress biomarkers were analysed in wild and captive reared brooders to address the above objectives. As compared to their captive counterparts, plasma 17β-estradiol was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in wild caught females. A concurrent trend was observed for plasma vitellogenin, aromatase, 17α, 20β-dihydroxy progesterone (17α, 20β DHP), luteinizing hormone (LH) and11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) indicating a weak hormone response in captive females that potentially hindered maturity. To the contrary, the plasma11-KT levels were not significantly different between wild and captive males. Plasma 17α, 20β DHP level was found significantly (p < 0.05) higher in wild caught females compared to females reared in captivity. However, both males of wild and captivity registered significantly higher 17α, 20β DHP than captive females. Plasma 11-KT level was significantly higher in males compared to females. However, the captive females had higher level of 11-KT than captive males. Stress biomarkers viz., cortisol, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) were also estimated both in wild and captive brooders. There was no significant difference in plasma cortisol levels of wild and captive reared brooders. However, plasma GPx and SOD activity were significantly higher in captive reared T. putitora as compared to wild brooders counterpart manifesting prevailing oxidative stress in captivity. Overall results showed endocrine and stress differences between wild and captive reared brood fishes during early spawning period which highlighted the endocrine failure of female reproductive maturity in captivity.Not Availabl