Effects of Home Task on the Academic Achievement of  Students at Graduate Level

Sidra Saeed

doi:10.32350/jarms.21.04

Sidra Saeed

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32350/jarms.21.04

Keywords: academic achievements, home tasks, college education, Lahore College for Women

Abstract

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The current aims to examine the impact of home tasks on the academic
achievements of students at graduation level. The main objective of the
research was to find out the effects of home task descriptive feedback on
students’ academic achievement, to investigate achievement of
experimental group after treatment and to investigate the effect of home task
on the performance of individual students. Researcher selected the
population of students of Education department from Lahore College for
Women University. Sample of 60 students were randomly selected. These
sixty students were merged in the group of two; Experimental and Control
group, on the basis of GPA. Each group was divided into fifteen students.
The control group was kept under control conditions, and experimental
group was given daily home task. Feedback was also given to students after
each assessment. Duration of the experiment was about two months. The
academic achievement of student’s was found through achievement test,
data was analyzed through t-test and graph. When the treatment did
provided the academic achievement of the experimental group was not
increased. So, it can be concluded that home task affects negatively on the
academic achievement of the students at graduation level.

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