ANALYSIS OF STUNTED STUDENTS FROM PRIMARY GRADE LEARNER USING BATTERY BASED ADAPTIVE ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Abstract

Stunting is psychological and physiological disorder caused by nutritional intake and health care condition resulting impaired cognition and low academic achievement. Blended learning is a form of education which encourages students to learn via electronic and online media as well as student teacher interaction. Achievement test is a tool that is composed of closed and open ended questions used to measure the learnability/achievement. This research investigates the impact of native language in identification of stunted children. It also inspects the impact of blended learning on learnability of stunted children. Translated WRAT 4 achievement test is used to measure learnability and impact of native language on learnability of stunted children, while Elearning management system, available at (www.qalumguru.com) is used to measure impact of blended learning on learnability. The statistical tool SPSS is used to analyze the results, which shows a decline in percentage of stunted students with usage of native language assessment test in identification of stunted students. Moreover an inclined is observed in the learnability of stunted students with the usage of blended learning.