Development of Writing Skills through Homework

Abstract

The present research study entitled "Development of Writing Skills Through Homework" mainly attempted to look at the development of writing skills through homework in the case of secondary level students in a public school of Mugu district. In order for achieving this purpose, I regularly assigned homework and analysed and interpreted result of homework, conducted and analyzed pre-test, post-test, and progress test. I used both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary data was solicited from the forty students of Grade 9 of Shree Mahakali Secondary School, Gamgadhi, Mugu by administrating homework, pre-test, progressive tests and post-test. The secondary sources of data that I used were different written materials and Grade 9 English textbook. In course of analysing and interpreting the data, what I found is out of 40 students, 45 per cent of the students have secured above the average score (i.e. 8.75) and 15 was the highest score on the pre-test whereas, on the post-test, 55 per cent of the students have secured above the average score (i.e. 26.52) and 35 was the highest score obtained by the students. So, it can be claimed that homework can have striking positive effect in developing writing skills. This research study consists of four chapters. The first chapter entails the study related to general background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter entails the methodology adopted for the research study. The third chapter deals with interpretations in terms of analysis of homework, analysis of pre-test, progress tests and post-test. The fourth chapter entails the findings and pedagogical implications related to the research study.