Nurturing Mathematical Skills Through Community Based Education Programme : An Experimental Study

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of community based education on mathematics learning of elementary school student’s. An experimental method was adopted. In all, 2619 students were selected from class III to class VIII through simple random sampling technique. Mathematics Skill Inventory developed by the researcher is used to collect the data. Findings revealed that, the average overall Endline (EL-86%) score is higher than baseline (BL51%) score, with 34.9% gain in Mathematics. The average endline performance for mathematics test ranges from 78% to 92.7% across classes (grade III to VIII) for all the students. Common students have scored in range of 83.4% to 91.3%. Meaningful improvements are observed from BL to EL with differences statistically significant, and large effect sizes.