Study to Examine the Relationship between Social Emotional Learning & Students’ Academic Achievements at Mirpur University of Science & Technology AJ&K

Abstract

Social-emotional Learning is an educational movement that is gaining ground throughout the world. Social and emotional learning is defined as the capability to make out plus supervise emotions, resolve troubles efficiently, and set up optimistic associations with others. Social-emotional learning consisted of such skills as recognizing as well as running emotions, upward understanding along with apprehension intended for others, establishing effectual relations into one-to-one over and above little cluster situations, manufacture accountable moreover moral decision, plus managing demanding situation. For this purpose, the researcher chose quantitative research design for this study. The study was correlational. Data were collected through cross sectional survey design. Adapted questionnaire was administered. Reliability of the questionnaire was checked through pilot-testing and validity was established with the help of experts in psychology. The population of this study was BS students from faculty of social sciences at Mirpur University of Science & Technology AJ&K. The sample was drawn using simple random sampling technique. Due to time and pandemic situation, study was delimited to only Mirpur University of Science & Technology AJ&K. Data was analyzed through SPSS using formula spearman’s rho on collected responses of the respondents to find out the results. The study concluded that although the results of present study showed that the relationship of social emotional learning and academic achievement however, several studies verified that both variables are strongly correlated.