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Gill, Chandandeep Kaur
- Locale Difference in Academic Readiness of Government School Children
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
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International Journal of Education and Management Studies, Vol 9, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 10-16Abstract
The present study was conducted to assess locale differences in academic readiness of government school children. The study was based on 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) studying in Class I equally distributed across two genders. The sample was randomly drawn from five Government Primary Schools purposively selected from rural as well as urban locales of Ludhiana District. Self-Structured Academic Readiness Checklist was used to assess the academic readiness of rural and urban government school children. The checklist comprised of worksheets, activities and observations related to pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-mathematical skills of the children for each component. Results revealed non significant differences in all the domains of academic readiness, however urban children were found to be performing better than rural children.Keywords
Academic Readiness, Pre-Reading, Pre-Writing and Pre-Arithmetic.
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