Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module about Life Skills Education on the Level of Life Skills among Early Adolescent Students of Selected Schools in Bengaluru, Karnataka

Life skill education programs have been found to be empowering adolescents from economically backward sections of society and they have been adopted to target several objectives among adolescent girls. The objectives of this programme is to promote awareness of the world around them, create awareness on growing issues, enhance mobility, empower to express their opinion as well as promotion of an egalitarian participation in decisions that affect their lives, developing vocational skills and saving mentality in them. The general objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module (SIM) about life skills education on the level of life skills among early adolescent students in selected schools in a Bengaluru. This study adopted a single group pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design. The study participants were selected by a simple random sampling technique, consisting of sixty samples from 9th and 10th standard students of St. Phillomena and Bloosom School in a Bengaluru. The tool consisting of socio-demographic data and life skills scale was given to assess the effectiveness of the SIM about life skills education administering the same questionnaire to assess the post-test. The overall mean post-test level score regarding life skills education (193.34) was significantly higher than overall mean pre-test level (161.43) score regarding life skills education score. The obtained t-value was found to be 5.714, which was significantly higher (p<0.05) than the table value. There was a significant (p<0.05) association found between the pre-test score with the gender of the students.