FOSTERING MATHEMATICAL SKILLS THROUH COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of community-based education on mathematics learning of elementary school student’s. For the present study experimental method was adopted. The researcher has selected 2619 students from class III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII through simple random sampling technique. Mathematics Skill Inventory developed by the researcher is used to collect the data. Findings of the study revealed that, the average overall Endline (EL-86%) score is higher than baseline (BL-51%) score, with 34.9% gain in Mathematics. The average endline performance for mathematics test ranges from 78% to 92.7% across classes (grade III to XIII) for all the students. Common students have scored in range of 83.4% to 91.3%. Meaningful improvements are observed from BL to EL with differences statistically significant, and large effect sizes.