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1.1 Introduction
Action Research is very popular in the field of education because there is always
space for improvement when it comes to teaching and educating others. There are
all types of methods of teaching in the classroom, but action research work very well
because it offers opportunities for continued reflection and improvement.
Some students think that economics is too difficult subject to understand. They don’t
pay attention towards the economic lectures. It can be because of less interest in
economic subject or maybe they are having some other problem like lack of basic
knowledge which can make economics subject boring.
It is carried out experimentally to find out what action should be taken to solve a
problem in the shortest possible time. It is undertaken as an act and as a guide to
action in a specific area.
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1.2 Need of Action Research
1) The research is required to identify why students are inattentive in economic
subject. The students may be confused in understanding the concepts of
economics and might be inattentive in the class.
2) The student might be careless in his work and so could not give attention on
the economic subject. The student might have some physical and
psychological problem.
5) The research is needed to fill the gap between theory and practice. It is needed
to identify problems and suggest remedies.
7) This can rise the achievement level of the students. With the help of research
curriculum can be developed.
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1.3 Statement of Problem
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1.4 Operational Definition
Economics:
1) The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption and
transfer of wealth.
2) The condition of region or group with respect to material prosperity.
Inattentive:
1) Not paying attention to subject.
2) Someone who is inattentive is not paying complete attention to a person or a
thing.
GDP:
Gross domestic product is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final
goods and services produced in a period of time, often annually.
GNP:
Gross national product is the value of all goods & services made a country’s
residents and businesses and regardless of production and location.
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1.5 Objectives
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1.6 Scope and Limitation
SCOPE:
This research can help us in finding the students having problem to be attentive in
classroom. The solution found by this research will reduce student’s problem.
In this research, the researcher tries to find out the reasons which makes students
inattentive in economic class. The research is related to which topic, area, and which
type of people are here.
Thus, the scope of this action research is to find our problems of students and take
corrective steps to make students attentive in class and understand the topic properly
and answer the questions with full confidence. This will boost their confidence for
future also.
Limitation:
Following are some of the limitations of this action research-
1. Action research is limited to English medium school only.
2. Solution and problem may differ from place to place and are not universal.
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1.7 Importance of Research
Today apart from education at the school, it is necessary to promote the concept of
action research.
Action research is more effective than formal research as it addresses root cause of
problem faced while teaching is formal research and is based on ideas that might
sound good in theory but don’t work practically.
The main purpose of this research is to find the actual reason why students are
inattentive in economics class. Through this research students improve their
confidence level and give perfect attention on topics.
Solutions are suggested to their problem and make them friendly in classroom with
other students and teachers.
Action research enables the school to organize proper programs for the development
of students. This can rise the achievement level of the people. with the help of
research, curriculum can be developed with important topics for action research to
deal with day to day problems faced by students in economics class.
This research will help the teacher and to make the student understand the content
in simple and easy way as per their mental level.
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Chapter 2
Review of Related Literature
The research requires a certain definite research guidelines for the researcher
respective of the location of the study area, etc. Quality enhancement in higher
education is yet another aspect which is paid much attention in higher education
nowadays.
For this research is important and review is an attempt to provide comprehensive
knowledge of principals, techniques, methods and concepts generally being used in
relatively simple languages for the beginners in the filed of educational research.
The review provides knowledge about the diverse paradigm and methodologies in
terms of qualitative, quantitative and interpretative research.
Through a review we are able to gain deep knowledge of various concepts and
different aspects of educational research. Ongoing research on different topics of
education system for improvement plays an important role, a vital role in
restructuring the educational pattern according to the need of the society by
minimizing the gap in educational institutes and market economy by studying the
thrust areas in the educational system.
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RESEARCH 1
1. Name: Ishika Sharma
2. Roll No. 25
3. Year: 2018-19
5. Objectives:
1) To identify the problems faced by students.
2) To find the reasons behind the problems faced by students.
3) To find out possible solutions for the problems with the help of parents.
4) To help students in reducing their problems by proper guidance.
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RESEARCH 2
1. Name: Vijay Sathe
2. Roll No. 18
3. Year: 2018-19
4. Statement of Research: “To study the reasons of the peer pressure among
standard IXth students.”
5. Objectives:
1) To identify the reasons of peer pressure.
2) To find out the reasons why students are involved in bad peer groups.
3) To analyze the reasons for peer pressure.
4) To find out solutions to guide pupil for selection of good peer groups.
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RESEARCH 3
1. Name: Chanda Singh
2. Roll No. 28
3. Year: 2018-19
5. Objectives:
1)To find out the reasons behind poor communication.
2)To analyze the reasons behind such performance in students.
3)To find out proper solutions for the problem.
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Chapter 3
Research Methodology
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2.1 Introduction
“The study of conducting research is Research Methodology.’’
Research- The word research is composed of two syllables “Re” and “search”.
Re is prefix meaning – again or over again or a new and search is – to examin
closely and carefully or to test and try.
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Methodology – Methodology is the systematic theoretical analysis of the
methods applied to a field of study. Is comprises the theoretical analysis of
the body of methods and principles associated with a branch of knowledge.
Research Methodology is a way to find out the result of a given problem on a
specific matter or problem that is also referred as research problem. In
methodology researcher uses different criteria for solving research problem.
Different sources use different types of methods for solving the problem. If
we think about the word “Methodology” it is the way of searching or solving
the research problem.
In this research I select the survey method and survey method is under the
descriptive method. This method is easy to conduct the research on students.
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3) Descriptive Method- Descriptive method is a study designed to depict the
participant in an accurate way. The three main ways to collect this information
are- observational, define as in-depth study of an individual or a group of
individuals.
All the survey techniques offer relatively quick ways of collecting information
and this project will show how researcher might employ surveys in their
Methodology research.
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2.3 Selection of Method
The main purpose of survey method in research is to tell “what is this”, i.e. to
describe the problem of phenomenon but many surveys go beyond description
of the existing situation.
As the topic of the action research “To study why the students of class IX
standard are inattentive in economics class.” For this research survey method
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is the best method for the accomplishment of the project as it will enable the
researcher to know the views of the students through questionnaire.
Data are the input utilized and processed to arrive at scientific conclusion. The
conclusion regarding different dimensions of the issue becomes the basic
activity of any kind of research.
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The different methods of collection of data are-
1) Observation; The teacher observes the behavior of the subject.
Sometimes the subject exhibits himself in a better way and sometimes in a
worse way. Teacher must observe his different situations at different time
especially when teacher deals with backward, retarded and gifted children.
Since the project is essentially a survey seeking to find the reasons for inattentiveness
of students of class IX in economics class, questionnaire is selected as a tool for the
collection of data.
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Several questions were prepared keeping the objectives of study in mind.
The questionnaire has total 20 questions. All the questions expected the response to
answer in the form of check marks to describe the truth of the statement in students
own case.
2.6 Sample
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It is from the study of the sample that something is known and said the whole
population. The assumption is that what is revealed about the sample will be
true about the population.
All the methods and techniques as adopted for selecting a sample are classified
into two broad categories as under-
Techniques of Sampling
Non-Probability
Probability Sampling
Sampling
For this action research, I have selected the non-probability sampling techniques.
Non-probability sampling technique:
In any form of research true random sampling is always difficult to achieve. Most
researchers are bound by time, money and workforce and because of these
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limitations it is almost impossible to randomly sample the entire population and it is
often necessary to employ another sampling technique, the non-probability sampling
technique.
In contrast with probability sampling technique, non-probability technique is not a
product of a randomized selection process. Subject in a non-probability technique
are usually selected based on their accessibility or by the purposive personal
judgement of the researcher.
The sample for this project consisted of 20 students of IXth standard for knowing the
problem of students.
Chapter 3
Analysis and Interpretation of Data
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3.1 Introduction
Before any test scores or any other quantitive data can be clearly understood
and interpreted, it is necessary that the data is analyzed and summarized.
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Raw scores are meaningless until they are converted statistically into suitable
standard scores.
Data can be collected for action research by any of the following three ways.
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1) By questionnaire method
2) By interview method
For the successful completion of the project and the topic selected, the method
used for data collection is questionnaire method. Questionnaire was given to
the students to know the views.
Data analysis is a process of converting the raw scores into derived scores for
better interpretation.
The data collected for the fulfilment of the action research by giving
questionnaires to the students is analyzed for better interpretation.
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3.4 Interpretation
The action of explaining the meaning of the collected and analyzed data is
performed in this step.
In this the interpretation is done by representing the analyzed data with the
help of bar diagram.
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1) Do you like to come to school regularly?
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No. of Students
15
10
0
Yes No Total
Response
Interpretation: 90% of the students like to come to school
& 10% of the students don't like to come to school.
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No. of Students
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Yes No Total
Response
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No. of Students
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No. of Students
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No. of Students
Response
Interpretation: 60% of the students get scolding on regular
basis from their economic teacher and 40% don’t get
scolding.
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No. of Students
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10
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Yes No Total
Response
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Total 20 100
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No. of Students
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Yes No Total
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Total 20 100
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No. of Students
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Total 20 100
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No. of Students
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10
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Yes No Total
Response
Interpretation: 60% of the students say that they do not get attention
from their economics teacher & 40% of the students get attention
from teacher.
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Total 20 100
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No. of Students
15
10
0
Yes No Total
Response
Conclusion: Most of the students are not clear about the concept of
GDP & GNP and hence they are inattentive towards the topic.
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Yes 10 50
No 10 50
Total 20 100
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No. of Students
15
10
0
Yes No Total
Response
Interpretation: 50% of the students says that they clear doubts with
teacher & 50% of the students says they don't ask doubts to their teacher.
Conclusion: Only some students clear their doubts with teacher and some
do not ask their doubts with teacher, so it can be the reason of their
inattentiveness in class.
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No. of Students
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10
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Yes No Total
Response
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No. of Students
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Yes No Total
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No. of Students
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Total 20 100
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No. of Students
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No. of Students
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Yes No Total
Response
Interpretation: 80% of the students are not able to calculate GDP &
GNP & 20% of the students know how to calculate GDP & GNP.
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No. of Students
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Response
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Chapter – 4
Conclusion And Recommendation
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4.1 Introduction
While economics teacher is teaching, researcher noticed that, students were making
lot of disturbance in the class. They were careless and inattentive in the class. They
were reluctant to give answers and were unable to read subject properly. From these,
researcher comes to conclusion that something is wrong with them.
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It is very important to conclude and recommend solutions for the problem. The
researcher found many reasons and so some measures were drawn to solve these
problems.
4.2 Summary
Action research is the best way of finding the solution of any problem faced by the
students. This entire research can be summarized as follows.
5.2.1 Statement of Problem
“To find out why IX standard students are inattentive in topic of GDP (Gross
Domestic Product) and GNP (Gross National Product) in economics subject.”
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5.2.2 Objective
1) To identify the reason for non-concentrating in the class.
2) To find the outs the reasons, why students are inattentive the economic class.
3) To analysis and suggest solutions to the problem.
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5.2.7 Tool of Research
The tool of research used for this research is questionnaire and personal interview.
4.3 Conclusion
The reasons and problems due to which the students of class IX were inattentive in
economics class are as under-
a) The students are interested in other activities rather than studies.
b) Students face problem due to lack of proper guidance.
c) The way of explanation of subject by teacher was quite boring, so students
don’t pay attention towards topics being teaches by teacher.
d) Due to lack of parental attention, students face problem.
e) Lack of individual attention.
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By analyzing data collected from the students it is clear that the problem of
students is due to boring method of teaching and lack of awareness among
students about importance of economics subject in their career and practical life.
4.4 Recommendations
Following are the recommendations to increase the attentiveness of students in
economics class-
a) There should be proper communication between students and teachers.
b) There should be proper communication between parents and teachers.
c) Teachers should have a friendly relation with students so that students clear
their doubts without any hesitation with teacher.
d) Proper teaching methods and techniques should be used by teacher to make
subject interesting.
e) Teacher should explain and make students understand, the importance of
economics subject in their career and practical life.
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f) Not only theory knowledge but also practical knowledge of economic subject
should be provided to students. It will make economics subject more
interesting for the students.
While doing the research, researcher comes across various reasons of students being
not attentive in the economics class. Some of them as under-
1. Students find it difficult to remember economic concepts and its related
diagrams.
2. More importance is given to theory knowledge rather than practical
knowledge.
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3. Concepts of topics given the economics class are not understood by the
students.
4. Students do not relate economics subject to their practical life.
Chapter – 5
Bibliography
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5.1 Bibliography
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1. Prof. Mrs. Gudgi Action Research & Suvichar 2006
Swati New activities Prakashan
Mandal, Pune
5.2 Appendix A
Name of students of standard IXth of Teens World Corporate School.
1. Gupta Priyanka Jitendra
2. Jain Raveena Vishnu
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3. Kanwar Kareena Govind
4. Paswan Sonam Avdhesh
5. Sahoo Manisha Jayant
6. Shah Shweta Sanjay
7. Singh Sapna Ranjeet
8. Mourya Shivaji Kunjbihari
9. Chaurasiya Rakesh
10.Shah Manish Satyanaryan
11.Gupta Amit Jitendra
12.Kumar Mukesh Vijay
13.Yadav Manish
14.Yadav Shivan
15.Kaur Charansingh
16.Patil Vishal Amit
17.Singh Shaurya Dinesh
18.Kampa Arpita Rajesh
19.More Anurag Ravi
20.Jha Jayant Rajeev
5.3 Appendix B
Questionnaire of Students.
Name___________________ Class__________
School__________________
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Put a tick mark in front of suitable box of answer.
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11) Do you ask your doubts to your teacher?
Yes No
12) Does your teacher interact with you?
Yes No
13) Do you understand the concept being taught by teacher in the class?
Yes No
14) Does your friend co-operate with you?
Yes No
15) Do you find any problem in concentrating in economics subject?
Yes No
16) Does your teacher teach you economics subject in interesting way?
Yes No
17) Do you find difficulty in calculating GDP & GNP?
Yes No
18) Do you think economic subject is very useful in our practical life?
Yes No
19) Is your teacher giving you any assignment in economics subject?
Yes No
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