Amalgmate peer-tutoring approach: its efficacy and implications

In fact, this study was intended to find out the effectiveness of a blended approach of teaching on Hindi Language of school students. Here, conventional teaching was blended with peer-tutoring. Although some researches stressed on replacing conventional lecturing with more active methods, but in this study conventional teaching was combined 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 of students in Hindi language but their reading comprehension and verbal ability 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.