The Effect of Emotional Literacy on Academic Achievement of Students at Secondary Level

Abstract

The present study is based on Ph.D. research. It had the following objectives: (i) to find out effect of emotional literacy on academic achievement in terms of experimental group and control group (ii) to find out the difference of treatment effect between the students of low achievers group and high achievers group. A sample of 60 students of 10th class was equally divided into the experimental group and the control group. Both the groups were equated on the basis of the scores of 9th class Board examination (treated as pre-test). A curriculum of emotional literacy was taught as treatment to the experimental group. A short syllabus from Urdu Book (Part II) for 10th class was taught to both experimental and control groups in a combined class by the same teacher. The study lasted for twelve weeks. After twelfth week a post-test for academic achievement was administered to the both experimental and control groups. Data were analyzed by applying t-test and (2x2) ANOVA. The findings of the study revealed that there is a considerable effect of emotional literacy on the academic achievement of the students at secondary level. It was also found that emotional literacy was equally helpful and effective for both high achievers and the low achievers.