Reading Comprehension Ability of Eighth Graders: A Comparative Study

Abstract

This research work attempts to compare the reading comprehension ability of the Eighth Graders of Sunsari district in a variety of seen and unseen texts. To carry out this research work, the researcher prepared test items including six different seen and unseen texts i.e. story, letter and biography. Then a test was administered to a number of 60 students in order to find out data for the research. The sources of data were 60 students from different six public schools of Sunsari. (i.e. Eighth Graders only). Then the test was administered to collect the data. After the administration of the test, the answer sheets of the students were collected, analysed and the reading comprehension ability was compared. This research study consists of five chapters. Introduction, Review of Related Literature and Conceptual Frame Work, Methodology, Results and Discussion and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter Introduction contains General Background, Statement of the Problem, Rationale of the Study, Objectives, Research Questions, Significance of the Study and Limitations. Similarly, the second chapter Review of the Related Literature contains Review of the Related Literature, Implication of the Reviewed Literature and Conceptual Frame Work. Chapter three Methods and Procedueres of Study consists of Study Design, Sources of Data Population of the Study, Sampling Procedural,Tools of Data Collection, Procedure of Data Collection, Data Analysis and Interpretation. Forth Chapter is Results and Discussion of the Data. In this the marks obtained by the students have been analyzed to find out their reading comprehension ability. Some stastical tools such as average and percentile have been used to analyse the marks obtained by students. Finally, the reading comprehension ability of the students of Eighth Graders has been compared on the basis of the marks obtained. Finally, the fifth Chapter consists of Findings and Recommendation of the study. References and Appendices are presented at the end of this chapter.