Impact of Resilience Intervention Program on achievement in Science of Elementary School Students

Resilience is the skill and the capacity to be robust under conditions of enormous stress and change (Coutu, 2002). It is the successful coping with stressful situations that fosters a sense of mastery and appropriate responsibility, leading to increased mental health and the belief in the individual‟s ability to cope with future stressors (Jew, Green & Kroger, 1999). The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Resilience Intervention Program on achievement in science of elementary school students. A pretest-posttest control group design was used in this study. The study was conducted on a total of 80 students studying class 8 of a government school of Chandigarh. The control and experimental groups had 40 students each. The experimental group was subjected to Resilience Intervention Program (developed by the researcher) and the control group was taught using traditional teaching methods. Data were collected through achievement test constructedand standardised by the researcher. For analyzing the data, two-way analysis of variance was used. According to research results, statistically significant difference between experimental and control groups‟ achievement in science was found. Additionally, it was found that girls outperformed boys in the scores of achievement test.