Effectiveness of Differentiated Teaching Techniques in Enhancing Academic Achievement of 9^th Standard Students

The present study was aimed to find out the impact of Differentiated Teaching Techniques on the academic achievement of secondary school students. A sample of 86 students from 9th standard was taken from Shiv Ashish School, Ahmedabad by using Purposive Sampling Method. The study was further replicated on 82 students of 9th standard of St Xaviers School, Ahmedabad. Differentiated Teaching technique was used to teach selected topics of Social Science in experimental group and the same topics were taught by the researcher in a conventional method for the control group. The experiment was carried out for 8 weeks of duration and 30 minutes per day in each group. Post test was applied after the experiment.

Data was analyzed by using Mean, SD, SED and t-test. The findings of the study revealed that differentiated teaching technique was more effective than conventional teaching technique in both, experiment (trial-1) and replication of the experiment (trial-2). Also the study showed that the academic achievement of students with graduate and non-graduate parents and students with and without siblings were not significant. On the other hand, differentiated teaching technique showed effectiveness in students in nuclear family than in students in joint family.