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Ph.D.
(Education)
DEVELOPMENT AND TRYOUT OF GUJARATI READING IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAMME FOR STUDENTS OF UPPER PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Ph.D. Scholar : Patel Chandrakant Keshavlal
Research Supervisor : Dr. Sonal R. Patel

Regi. No.: 13146011006
Abstract :
In only reading builds personality from beginning to the end in human life. In the field of
education, each individual can get bright success with the help of reading. Reading helps
the reader to realize meaning of the text. After assimilating meaning, the reader tries to
interpret what the author wants to say by that writing, so reading is regarded as the
process of realization and interpretation.

Educational thinkers consider primary education as the stage of skill development, and
then it is essential that students should develop reading skill during the period of primary
education. The Gujarati Reading Improvement Programme, prepared in the present study,
will be useful to a large mass. It will be very useful for development of this important skill
in education.

The major objectives of the present study were to construct and try out a Gujarati
Reading Improvement Programme to examine effect of area and sex.

Primary education and language education had become research fields of the present
study. It was a quantitative type of research, in which Experimental Research Method was
adopted.

Total 5867 students of std – 7, studying in Primary schools of Mehsana Taluka had
formed population of the present study, in which 3250 boys and 2617 girls were included,
whereas 120 students of std 7, studying in Primary schools of Mehsana Taluka in the
academic year 2015-16 were selected for the sample. The sample was selected by using
cluster sampling.

A self-constructed test carrying 67 marks was prepared considering 15 components of
reading skill. It was consisted of four parts and seven assignments.

The experiment was administered by using a single group-pretest-post test design.
Reading performance in the Gujarati Reading Improvement Programme of each
respondent was recorded and scoring was made in the evaluation sheet. The data was
entered into MS Excel of computer. Reliability was found out and statistical computation
of score was made. Hypotheses were tested by using t-test.

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