Comparative study of depth perception between male and female students at higher secondary school level

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the depth perception of female and male students at higher secondary school level. For achieving the purpose of the study twenty male (n - 20) and twenty female (n - 20) students were selected as samples from Senior Secondary Model School Punjabi University Patiala. The age of subjects ranged between 15 to 20 years. I Digraph Depth Perception Tester was the best suited instrument for the present study and it was also used to measure the depth perception of male and female students. After the collection of relevant data, it was processed and analyzed with descriptive statistics. To compare the depth perception of subjects, Mean, standard deviation and t-test was employed with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hypothesis the significance level was set at 0.05 percent. After statistical treatment, result showed that there were insignificant differences for depth perception between male and female students.