A comparative study on spelling performance among private and government school students

Spelling is a challenging subject for many people, and many people do not take spelling seriously. While rote learning can help some children, most children soon forget how to spell difficult words once their weekly spelling test is over.

The present research is focused on the comparative study on the spelling performance among student of private and government school of class 6^th-8^th.

The research used “Schonell Spelling Test” by Schonell and Goodacer (1971) which assesses the spelling age from 6 to 15+ years of age. The total sample consisted of 60 students. 30 boys and 30 girls were taken from the government and private schools through convenient sampling randomly. The data was tabulated and t test was applied to study the significant difference.

The result revealed that the spelling performance of student in both groups differ due to lack of encouragement by the teachers and family.

Another reason was lack of proper and regular educational facilities in school which reinforces the children to perform better academically.