Efficacy of a balanced amalgamated approach of teaching on Hindi Language of school students

This study was intended to find out the efficacy of a balanced amalgamated approach of teaching on Hindi Language of school students. Although some research stresses replacing conventional lecturing with more active methods, the approach of this study is to combine conventional lecturing with peer-tutoring. The quasi-experimental research design i.e. pre-test-Post-test-control group design was used and the study was conducted on a representative sample of 168 standard VIII students. The results of the study indicate that such a balanced amalgamated approach to learning not only improves academic achievement ofstudents in Hindi language, but their reading comprehension as well. Hence, an instructional approach that combines with peer-tutoring appears to be a significantly better approach than conventional lecturing or text book method alone for teaching school eight grade students.