Lower Secondary Level Students’ Proficiency on Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The present research work entitled Lower Secondary Level Students’ Proficiency on Reading Comprehension was an attempted to find out the students‟ proficiency in reading comprehension of the eighth grade. For this, forty students of grade eight were sampled from four different schools; two private and two public schools of Kathmandu district through non-random sampling procedure. A set of test comprising of short question, true/false items, matching items, fill in the blanks items and vocabularies items was administered in order to find out the students‟ proficiency on reading comprehension. After the analysis and interpretation of the collected data, it was found that the average students‟ proficiency on reading comprehension of school was excellent whereas students‟ proficiency on reading comprehension of public school was very good. In comparision, lower secondary level students‟ proficiency on reading comprehension of private school was better than public schools. The study is divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes the general background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature and review of related empirical literature. It also includes implication of review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter includes the methods and procedures of the study. It subsumes design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure. Chapter four encompasses the results and discussion of the collected data. The last chapter consists of summery, conclusions and implications of the study. The implications have been presented into three levels, i.e. policy, practical and further research level. The final part includes references and appendices as well.