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Item Impact of teacher training on students' achievement in mathematics(Department of Mathematics Education, 2017) Upadhyay, Pushp RajThis study focused on impact of teacher training on students’ achievement in mathematics of grade IX students of Kailali district. The objectives of this study were to find the impact of teacher’s training in teaching learning strategy of mathematics, to analyze the activities of trained teachers in mathematics class and to compare the achievement of students taught by trained and untrained teachers.This study is based on mixed design.Researcher selected 144 students from six community schools by convenience sampling method for this study. The data was collected from interview, questionnaire, class observation form and annual result of the schools. Mean, standard deviation and z-test were used for the analysis of quantitative data and the qualitative data analyzed by thematic analysis method. The study found that there was significance difference between mathematics achievement of students taught by trained and untrained teachers. Only teacher training did not affect whole students’ teaching learning activities of mathematics but there school’s environment, physical structure of school and number of students also effect students’ achievement in mathematics. There did not significance differences between the trained and untrained teachers in their classroom performance in teaching method and using materials. But trained teachers attitude and behavior was good with students in the classroom than untrained teachers. There were boys’ mathematics achievement was greater than girls’ mathematics achievement. So, significance difference between boys’ and girls’ achievement in mathematics taught by trained teachers.Item Reading and Writingstrategies Used Bygrade Xi Students(Department of Mathematics Education, 2014) Shrestha, BinduThis study entitled "Reading and Writing StrategiesUsed byGradeXIStudents"is basically a descriptivestudy. It is an attempt to find out thereading and writing strategies used by grade XI students in learningEnglish. In order to carry out this study, the researcher selected fourdifferent schools from Syngja district through purposive non-randomsampling procedure. Sixteen students from each school were purposivelyselected as the sample of this study. The researcher used both primaryand secondary sources of data. A set of survey questionnaire related toreading and writing strategies was used as the tool for data collection.After analyzing the collected data, it is found that to develop reading skillin English, the students of grade XI, majoring in English read Englishstories, poem, newspaper and magazinesand any materials as they foundsuitable for themselves. Similarly to develop good writing skill, studentsof grade XI were found to prepare their own note, do homeworkregularly, note down the main points during teacher explanation and tookpart in essaycompetition organized by the college. This work comprises five chapters. Chapter one deals with theintroduction which consists of general back ground, statement of theproblems, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, researchquestions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study andoperational definitions of the key terms. Chapter two deals with thereview of related literatures and conceptual framework. It consists ofreview of related empirical literature, implication of the reviewfor study,theatrical literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter is aboutthe methodology used in the process of this study. Namely, they are :population and sample, sampling procedure, the tools adopted, theprocess of data collection and interpretation. The fourth chapter is the 9 presentation of results and discussions of the collect data. The discussionis incorporated in to two categories as reading strategies and writingstrategies used by the students. The final chapter is about the summary,conclusion and implications of the study. The implication furtherincorporated into policy level, practice level and further research area.Item Strategies used by eight graders in learning English vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2009) Dhungel, Upendra PrasadThe main purpose of the present study entitled ‘Strategies Used by Eighth Graders in Learning English Vocabulary’ was to investigate the English vocabulary learning strategies employed by the high and low achievers of grade eight. The study was conducted with eighty students (40 high achievers and 40 low achievers) studying in grade eight in the public schools of Kathmandu district. The data for the study were collected through questionnaire and interview. A vocabulary learning strategy questionnaire designed following the likert method was administered to the students to gather the required information. A structured interview schedule was used for collecting data from the teachers. The finding of the study showed that the high achievers used a wider variety of vocabulary learning strategies than the low achievers. This study consists of four chapters.Chapter one includes general background to the study, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two deals with methodology used for the study which includes sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter three incorporates analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four presents the findings of the study. It also suggests some pedagogical implications based on the findings.Item Strategies Used inTeaching Communicative Functions(Department of English Education, 2015) Sapkota, Ram KrishnaThe study entitled Strategies Used inTeaching Communicative Functions has been carried out to find out strategies used by the teacher in teaching communicative functions at the secondary level. By the use of non random sampling procedures, the researcher selected fifteen secondary schools of Syangja district and fifteen teachers from each of the selected schools. The researcher collected data through questionnaire andclassroom observation. He kept the record of the communicative strategies used by the teachers while teaching communicative functions during his period of observation. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted qualitatively. He used simple statistical tools like frequency and percentage to present quantitative data as well. From the analysis and interpretation of the data, the result of this study showed that while teaching communicative functions in secondary school, teachers were found to use role play,groupwork, pair work, discussion, demonstration, explanation, picture description, oral interview as the major strategies for teaching communicative functions. However, they were found to have faced several problems such as classroom management, materials,student's participation. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study. It introduces communicative functions and techniques used in teaching communicative functions. Similarly, it includes research questions, significance of the study,delimitations and operational definitions of key terms. Chapter two is related with review of both theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study i.e. how the research was carried out. It includes design of the study, population,sample and sampling strategies, study areas/filed, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data analysis and interpretation procedures.Similarly, chapter four is related to the analysis and interpretation of results which were analyzed separating them into three teaching strategies used in teaching communicative functions and classroom strategies used by the teacher for teaching. The data have been interpreted by presenting thestrategies used in teaching communicative functions in the form of table. Final chapter includes the conclusion and recommendations. Recommendations is also presented into three levels viz.policy related level, practice related level and further research related level. The study ends with the references and appendices used in the study.Item A Study on classroom Activities adopted Bynovice Teacherstoteach Speaking Skill(Faculty of Education, 2014) Shahi, Dambar BahadurThis research entitled "A Study on Classroom Activities Adopted by NoviceTeachers to Teach Speaking Skill" is an attempt to find out the classroomactivities of secondary level novice teachers to teach speaking skill. This studyfollowed survey design. It consisted of both primary and secondary sources ofdata.Ten teachers of secondary level school and thirty students of the samelevelwere sampledby purposive non random sampling procedure. I used bothquestionnaire and observation checklist as tools to collect the data. It wasfound thatthemajority ofthe teachers used open-ended cues in the classroomandprovided ample exposure to the learners toteachspeaking skill.However,a very few number of classes had the provision of language games to facilitatethe teaching of speaking skills. Similarly, a minority of teachers were aware inbuilding situational context to use the language item in the classroom. This thesisconsists offivechapters. The first chapter deals with theintroduction of the topic in whichbackground, statement of the problem,rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significanceof the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definitions ofthe keyterms.The second chaptercoversreview of the related literature, implicationsof the review for the study, conceptual framework, and theoretical framework.The third chapter deals withthedesign of the study,population and sample,sampling procedure, data collection tools, datacollection procedure and dataanalysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the fourth chapter aims atpresenting the resultanddiscussion. Fifth chapter deals with summary,conclusions, and implicationsfollowed by references and appendices.