Readers Club Teacher Survey - Reading Habit among
Students
-by
ShwetaSasidharan and Navya.V
It was with great interest that the members of the
Readers club took this survey... and their interest has given fruitful results
too. Members were divided into groups each conducting a survey of the teachers/
students. At this moment, all of us are very happy to bring out the results of
the survey that was conducted for the teachers. A total of Thirty-seven (37)
teachers from various schools and boards(Kendriya Vidyalaya Kanjikode, Chinmaya
Vidyalaya, Vasavi Vidyalaya etc.) were interviewed by the members out of whom there were 29 female and 8 male teachers. We have
selected teachers from other schools whose ward is studying in our Vidyalaya so
as to make it possible to get the feedback on the KVS Library Policy and the
CBSE Reading Project on library usage and reading habit of the students.
English, as a reading language, is the most popular
language among teachers with more than 50% of the teachers voting for it with
Malayalam seconding the list. Hindi is the least popular one. May be next time,
we may have Hindi topping the list.
Teacher recommendations and suggestions definitely
influence the students to seek the books to read. The survey revealed that
majority of the teachers take time to discuss books in their classroom.
Teachers suggested wonderful ways to improve
children’s reading habits like motivation from teachers, parents, opening
reading clubs and libraries in the city, making children aware of the good
effects of reading, allot sometime in the time table for mass reading and so
on. Here are a few graphs that will let you go more into it.
All respondents go with the fact that they enjoy
reading. Most of the teachers do have maintain a home library may be this is
because they prefer to have books handy to read as and when time permits. It
was also seen on the student surveys we conducted that a majority have a good
collection of books at home.
The next part is the most important aspect of the
survey. It is what the teachers have to say about the reading habit among
students.
It is quite a shocking revelation that almost 76% of
the teachers say that the reading habit among students is declining while only
about 15% don’t go with them. Many teachers point out lack of interest as the
main reason for this decline. Motivation is also another thing that the
students of the present era don’t come across quite often.
All the teacher respondents agreed
that the KVS Library Policy has had an immense positive effect on libraries of
different Kendriya Vidayalayas.Let us look into this aspect.
We are very happy to say that a good number of teachers
strongly agree that the Reading Project introduced by CBSE recently had an
impact in improving the reading habits of children but the majority thinks that
it has had only average effect on the targeted - STUDENTS.
Now, a few personal aspects about the teachers’
wards themselves. 29 of the respondents have children studying in our
Vidyalaya.
It is heartening
to see that more than 95% of the respondents said their children enjoy reading
and they do spend time reading at home. May be because the parents are
teachers, majority of them do discuss books with their children. Definitely
this would have made all the difference.
As all of you know, watching television is one of
the most favoured leisure activity for all of us in the present day. But Reading
has not been unsuccessful. It has seconded the list. It is clear from the
surveys that the policies and facilities introduced by the organisations do
have a positive impact on the reading habits among the students. In the coming
years, with improvement in all the facilities connected to reading, we are sure
that reading will regain the top position.
It is of special attention that even though most of
the respondents do have a home library and membership in public and local
libraries, for the majority (79.31%) school libraries are the main source for
reading materials.
Based on the feedback from the teacher parents, it
is evident that the students are mostly interested in reading novels, stories
and comics. Popular science and biographies are yet to gain a prominent place
in the reading list of students.
So, now we come to the end of our report. Leaving
out a few negatives, the results were all positives. We thank the teachers for
supporting us and spending their valuable time with us to answer these
questions.
ShwetaSasidharan and Navya.V
Class IX B
Kendriya Vidyalaya Kanjikode
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