ISSN: 2320-5407 Int. J. Adv. Res. 5(8), 1498-1503 1498 Journal Homepage: - www.journalijar.com Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5209 DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5209 RESEARCH ARTICLE A STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC TEMPER AND SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. Umesh Chandra Kapri. Associate Professor, Gold Field College of Education, Faridabad. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Manuscript Info Abstract ……………………. ……………………………………………………………… Manuscript History Received: 18 June 2017 Final Accepted: 20 July 2017 Published: August 2017 Key words:- Science; Scientific Temper, Scientific Creativity. Scientific temper is a personality dimension of a person associated with his/her basic drives to think or work in a systematic and scientific way and Scientific Creativity is the creativity in the field of science. It is the process of formulating hypothesis in scientific situation, testing and retesting these hypotheses and modifying and retesting again and so on. A creative work in science requires experimentation, intuition, hardworking, insight and continuous involvement in thinking and rethinking. This paper addresses the relation between scientific temper and scientific creativity. The rationale for the study was to identify the effect of scientific temper and scientific creativity and to find out the ways through which achievement can be improved particularly in science subject. The study was carried out on a randomly selected sample of 60 students of science belonging to class 11 th , selected from 2 senior secondary schools of Faridabad district of Haryana. Scientific temper and scientific creativity tests were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, t- test and Pearson‟s correlation were used to analyse and interpret the data and to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that there is significant correlation between scientific temper and scientific creativity of secondary school science students. There is no significant difference between mean score of scientific temper of boys and girls of senior secondary schools. The girls of senior secondary schools were found better in scientific creativity than the boys of these schools. Copy Right, IJAR, 2017,. All rights reserved. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Introduction:- Science education occupies a very eminent place in curriculum both at school and university stages of education in India. Science education is supposed to perform a two-fold task. The prime objective, in individualistic perspective, is the cultivation of a scientific temper and creativity, which includes a spirit of enquiry, a disposition to reason logically and dispassionately, a habit of judging beliefs and opinions on available evidence, readiness to reject unfounded theories and principles, the courage to admit facts, how so ever, unsettling or disagreeable they might be, and, finally, recognizing the limits of reasoning power itself. It is also expected of science education that it would give individuals a firm grasp of the concepts and processes of science and impart to them the ability to use the scientific method of problem solving and the techniques of observation and experimentation in handling problem of comprehension or life.`` Corresponding Author:- Umesh Chandra Kapri. Address:- Associate Professor, Gold Field College of Education, Faridabad.