Effect of Reinforcement on Mathematics Achievement of Lower Secondary Level Student

Abstract

The present study " Effect of reinforcement mathematics achievement of lower secondary level students" is carry out to compare the achievement of the mathematics students taught by using reinforcement and without using reinforcement and analyze the behavior of students. The study adopted experimental design. Achievement test, lesson plan and observation were used as data collection tool for the study of this research. A pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent group design was adopted to fulfill the objective of the study. For this two school were selected by convenience sampling method from Siraha district, which were similar in terms of achievement and socio-economic status. The researcher has selected 40 students in the sample both the experimental and control group were taught by researcher herself for 24 day by using and without using reinforcement respectively. Researcher taught the selected units of mathematics textbook of grade VII prescribed by government of Nepal. Student’s behavior was observed by the researcher during the experimentation. After this an achievement test was administered on the both group. The result of test was analyzed by using t-test at 0.05 level of significance difference. It is found that the mean achievement score of the students taught by using reinforcement is better than the mean achievement score of the students taught by without using reinforcement. From the observation, it is concluded that most of the students taught by using reinforcement were very competitive, active, regularly, concentrative and laborious.