Research Scholar, Education Department, Nagaland University, Meriema, Nagaland-797001, India
Online published on 25 December, 2015.
The present study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of learner centred strategies and conventional method of teaching on academic achievement of students in science in order to find out which one of them is more effective learning strategy. The sample of the study was 675 elementary school students made up of 341 boys and 334 girls randomly selected from two districts of Manipur state of India. Pre-test and post test design was adopted for the study. Two instruments namely science pre –test and post test were used for collection of the data. The collected data was subjected to t-test analysis at p=0.05 level of significance. The finding revealed that the learner centred strategies was significantly effective than the conventional method in terms of the academic achievement as well as the retention of the concepts. The study recommends the learner centred strategies for teaching for the elementary stage of education in Manipur, India.
Activity base learning, Learner centred approach, pre and post –test, Achievement, Retention
