The Effect of Peer Mentoring on the Enhancement of Decision Making Skill among Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

This study examined whether peer mentoring is an effective strategy for enhancing children’s Decision Making Skill using the Module on Decision Making Skill (prepared and validated by the investigator). The pretest-posttest non equivalent group design was used for the study. 106 higher secondary school students from a co-educational higher secondary school in Malappuram participated in the study. Five point Likert scale (Decision Making Skill Assessment Scale) was the instrument used to obtain information from the respondents. Mean difference analysis indicated that the mean sores of Experimental and Comparison Groups students’ Decision Making Skill differ significantly. Also Cohen’s Effect size analysis showed that Peer Mentoring strategy has a large effect on enhancing Decision Making Skills of higher secondary school students.