Abstract
Moral reasoning is mainly focusing on making right decisions to do right activities and exhibit good behaviour of school students in a particular situation and it provides chances for them to discover and realize values, to build character and to improve personality. The findings reveal that there exits significant difference amongst moral reasoning of secondary school students and their profile. Moral reasoning is positively and moderately related with academic achievement of secondary school students. Hence, secondary school teachers should give proper guidance to their secondary school students for improving their moral reasoning and ethical and moral behaviours. Parents must provide conducive home environment for their secondary school students to enhance their abilities for moral reasoning and academic achievement. Furthermore, secondary school teachers should interact, discuss and exchange ideas regularly with their secondary school students for increasing their moral reasoning and academic achievement. Peer groups and family members must also give moral support to their secondary school students for improving their moral reasoning and academic achievement. In addition, secondary schools should conduct various programmes for enhancing moral reasoning and academic achievement among their secondary school students.
Highlights
One of the most important goals of school education is to generate an educated society that leads to intellectual and economic development of nation
HYPOTHESES OF THE STUDY i) There is no significant difference between moral reasoning of secondary school students regarding gender. ii) There is no significant difference among moral reasoning of secondary school students regarding type of school iii) There is no significant difference between moral reasoning of secondary school students regarding medium of instruction. iv) There is no significant difference among moral reasoning of secondary school students regarding nature of schools. v) There is no significant difference between moral reasoning of secondary school students regarding locality of schools. vi) There is no significant relation between moral reasoning and academic achievement of secondary school students
Secondary school students studying in co-education schools are better in moral reasoning as compared to secondary school students studying in boys and girls schools
Summary
One of the most important goals of school education is to generate an educated society that leads to intellectual and economic development of nation. It is essential to study moral reasoning and academic achievement of secondary school students. This study is useful to secondary school teachers and parents to adopt various strategies in order to improve moral reasoning and academic achievement of secondary school students. Vi) To study the relation between moral reasoning and academic achievement of secondary school students. Vi) There is no significant relation between moral reasoning and academic achievement of secondary school students.
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