Effects of Intervention on Reduction of Academic Backwardness of Rural School Students From Marathwada Region

A sample of purposively selected 300 rural school students from operational villages of AICRP-Home Science namely Pokharni, Daithana, Dharmapuri and Takli (Kumbhkaran) of Parbhani district were selected and categorized on the basis of their academic grade cards issued by their respective schools.Further, these enrolled students were categorized based on the cut of points decided by Education Department (MS) i.e.D grade for 34-40% marks as poor and E grade for 21-34% marks as very poor grades.Out of 300 rural academically backward school students, 150 of them were considered as control group students (Gr I) and remaining of them as experimental group students (Gr II).Seventy-five girls and 75 boys were enrolled in both the groups, who were studying in 7 th , 8 th and 9 th std in the schools of Pokharni, Daithana, Takli and Dharmapuri of Parbhani district.The experimental groups' (Gr-II) sample were provided with intervention on reduction of academic backwardness of rural school students for a period of 9 months such as assignments on reading, writing and arithmetic lectures, workshops, play way method of study ,parents education, books exhibition and sale ,health check ups at free of cost ,health and hygiene etc..After implementing the intervention all the sample academically backward school students in the control and experimental groups problem of their academic backwardness, GQ, IQ were reassessed for studying the effects of provided intervention.Intervention provided to the rural academic backwardness school students was found to be significantly useful for reducing rural school student problems associated with their academic backwardness.