Effect of reinforcement in Mathematic achivement

Abstract

Mathematic is the most useful subject in our daily life. So, it is taught at every level up to secondary level as compulsory subject. From S.L.C result it has been seen that most of the students failed in mathematics. The researcher has tried to find out the effect of reinforcement in mathematic achievement at primary level. This is an experimental research entitled Effect of Reinforcement in Mathematics Achievement.The objective of the study were ‘to compare the achievement of the students taught by using reinforcement and without using reinforcement in mathematics’ and to analyze the behaviors of students in learning mathematics at classroom. A pretest, posttest, non-equivalent group design was adopted to fulfill the objective of the study. For this, two school were selected by convenience sampling method from Dhading district, which were similar in terms of achievement and socio-economic status. Both the experimental and control group were taught by researcher herself for 23 days by using and without using reinforcement respectively. Researcher taught the selected units of mathematics text book of grade three 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 almost of the students taught by using reinforcement were very competitive, active, regular, concentrative and laborious.