Abstract

This study aimed to determine the relationship of social skills with students’ academic achievement at secondary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many factors affect students’ academic achievement but one of them is students’ social skills. In this study, five social skills .i.e. peer relation, self-management, academic, cooperation and assertive skills were taken. This was a survey and co-relational type study. All the2616 public secondary schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the population of the study.Sixty public secondary schools was selected as sample. Twenty students of grade 9th from each school were selected randomly as sample. For data collection, two questionnaires i.e.5-point Likert scales, one for students and other for class teachers, were used. For assessment of students’ academic achievement, self-developed Pakistan study academic achievement test(PSAAT) was used. The validity of instruments was checked with the help of expert committee while reliability was checked through Cronbach alpha and was determined as 0.945.Data were analyzed on the basis of research question, using Pearson-product moment correlation, Independent sample t-test and ANOVA. From the findings, it is concluded that there is positive correlation between social skills and students’ academic achievement at secondary level. It is essential for every school to provide social skills training program to students for enhancement of their academic achievement.