Volume: 1 Issue 1 [June 2018]

Article:Effects of Positive Reinforcement on Students Academic Performance

Author: Alam Zeb Khattak, Alay Ahmad

Volume: Volume 1 Issue 1, June - 2018

DOI: Pages 220-225

Abstract: This research study was conducted to know the effects of positive reinforcement on students academic performance. For this purpose a sample of 50 subjects (20 female & 30 male) was selected having the same socioeconomic background with no cultural differences. All of the subjects were taken from a government school their age ranges from 9 to 11 years having mean age of 9.8. They were all 4th and 5th graders. It was hypothesized that positively reinforced students will score higher on recalling non sense syllables through free recall test. Results of the study confirmed the hypothesis and a significant difference was found between the scores of experimental and control groups with a mean of 0.5 for both experimental and control groups and value of “t” was 2.50 significant at 0.5 level.

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