EFFECTIVENESS OF ANCHORED LEARNING STRATEGY IN THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN HINDI

Anchored learning is an innovation in teaching-learning process. It is highly related to cognitive and social constructivism. In Anchored learning, activities related to instruction are designed around an ?anchor? which is often a story, adventure or situation that contains an interesting problem to be solved. The objective of the present study was to test the effectiveness of Anchored Instruction strategy in the academic achievement of students in Hindi. Pre test ? Post test group design was adopted for the study. There were 72 students in the Experimental group (Anchored Instruction) and 72 in the control group (Traditional method). Mean and Standard deviation of both the pre-test and post-test scores were computed and the critical ratio was found out. The result of the study shows that, the students who were exposed to the select strategy, namely Anchored instruction made significant improvement in their level of academic achievement with that of their counterparts in the Control group which was exposed to the prevailing method of instruction.