Effect of Fine Motor Skill activities on Handwriting of Low Achiever Students and High Achiever Students at Elementary Level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.53575/irjei.v3.02(22)5.48-57Keywords:
Motor skill, hand writing, elementary level, effect, techniques, toolsAbstract
This study was carried out to find the Effect of fine motor skill activities on handwriting of low achiever students and high achiever students at elementary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. In developing writing, the students are required to learn fine motor skills while working firsts in groups and then independently. With accurate fine motor skills, the students can increase their writing. That is why the researcher conducted this experimental study to get the hypotheses tested. For this purpose two teaching-learning techniques. Lecture demonstration method and teaching motor skill activities were used. Both the groups were treated to observe the desirable impact of fine motor skills on writing of Kindergarten class students. The sample for such study was taken from Girls Primary School Pabbi Nowshera. The subjects were divided into Control and Experimental groups on the basis of pre-test. Both the groups were given treatment to investigate: (i) Effects of fine motor skills on writing of low achievers students, (ii) Effect of fine motor skills on writing of high achievers students, (iii) to compare the effect of fine motor skills on writing of both low achievers and high achievers students. At the end of the treatment/interventions activity, a Post– Test was conducted to the sample. The numerical data thus collected was analyzed and interpreted by implying statistical tools.
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