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1. To study the existing level of and Socioeconomic status parameters.
scientific creativity among high Based on scores on the Test of General
school students. Mental Ability, these 583 students were
further divided into three groups i.e.
2. To study the effect of EduSat
lectures on different dimensions high, average, and low intelligence levels
of scientific creativity among high group, Similarly, all 583 students were
school students. also enlisted into three groups having a
high, average, and low Socio-economic
3. To study the effect of EduSat lectures status based on their Socio-economic
on overall scientific creativity among Status Scale scores. The further
high school students. analysis showed that 42 students were
common to the high intelligence as
Hypotheses well as high socioeconomic status.
The following hypotheses were These 42 common subjects/students
generated for the study: were divided randomly into two groups
equally i.e. 21 to the control group and
1. After the exposure to EduSat 21 to the experimental group. The same
lectures, there is no significant procedure was followed while dividing
difference between pre-test and the students into the control group
post-test levels of scientific creativity and the experimental group from the
among high school students. average group (92 students) and the
2. After the exposure to EduSat lower group (72 students) of intelligence
lectures, there is no significant and socio-economic parameters. Out
difference between the scientific of these 206 common subjects in high,
creativity of experimental and average, and low groups of intelligence
control group students. and socio-economic parameters, 200
were selected by weeding out two
Methodology students from the high, average, and
low groups. Hence, in this way, a sample
Sample
of 200 students was obtained randomly
A sample of 200 science students from divided into control and experimental
the IXth class of two urban and two rural groups 100 each. Through equating and
area government schools of the Sonipat matching of subjects, an attempt was
district of Haryana was drawn randomly. made to eliminate systematic bias and
In the first instance, 20 schools were minimize the effect of the intervening
approached for the experiment but variables. Thereafter, dividing the
finally, four schools agreed to cooperate. subjects to the control and experimental
In total, 583 students were studying in group randomly, the measures of two
the IXth class of those four schools. All intervening variables (intelligence and
the 583 students were administered to socio-economic status) between the
Jalota’s (1972) Group Test of General control and the experimental groups
Mental Ability (Hindi) and Socio- were tested statistically, to ensure
economic Status Scale by Kulshreshta the equivalence of the two groups.
(1972) to equate them on intelligence The ‘t’-test was applied to find out the

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