International Journal of Education and Psychological Research
(Print and Online Peer Reviewed and refereed Quarterly Published Journal)
Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179
International Journal of Education and Psychological Research
(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)
Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179
VOLUME 12 - ISSUE 2
(June 2023)
Students Helping the Achievement of Rurals in Education (SHARE): A case study of a societal initiative in rural Bangalore
Authors:
Rangarajan,
S., & Subramanian, A
Pages: 1-3
Abstract:
A high
learning poverty rate, measured as the proportion of
10-year-olds who cannot read and understand simple text, directly slows the advancement
of our societies. The learning poverty rate and other impacted learning gaps
will narrow only if students are guided consecutively through the stages of
learning. In this paper, we introduce a new approach where the students of an
engineering college interacted with school students in a nearby rural
area. By analyzing where students
typically make mistakes as well as how students chose the incorrect answer,
targeted coaching was administered in small groups. The pre-test and post- test
performances were analyzed. It is shown that this scheme, with acronym SHARE,
produces significant improvements in the learning roadmap of the rural school
students, while simultaneously strengthening the concepts of volunteer
engineering college students, and contributing to their Academic Social
Responsibility.