Students' Thinking Skills, Social Skills and Emotional Skills at the Tertiary Level of Education

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to find out students’ thinking skills, social skills and emotional skills at the tertiary level of education in Mizoram. For this, Life Skills inventory constructed by the investigator was used. Sample was collected from a total of 523 college students with 230 males and 293 females using stratified random sampling method. It was found that male students were better than female students in thinking skills; science students had better thinking skills than commerce and arts students. With respect to emotional skills, it was found that males had better emotional skills than female students.