SNDT Women’s University
SNDT College of Education Pune
EPC 4
Experimental Research Project
TOPIC
Interpreting On Handwriting
-among Secondary School Students
Submitted By: ANAMIKA
First Year of B. Ed
Submitted To: Dr. Sangita Shirode
Interpreting On Handwriting
-among Secondary School Students
ABSTRACT
Good handwriting serves as a primary tool of communication and knowledge
assessment for students in classroom. Though computer and e- mail play an
important role in our lives, nothing will ever replace the sincerity and
individualism expressed through handwritten words. Our education system
stress on student’s handwriting at primary level by introducing books like
cursive writing, ruled notes and handwritten works. But as they upgrade, impact
on handwriting slowly vanishes among students mainly at secondary level
where they are stressed and deviated towards rote learning as a medium to fetch
marks. But at this point we forget that only an aesthetic handwriting is a vehicle
to impress and deliver our thoughts in the mind of evaluator, particularly when
the evaluator is a stranger in case of public exams. This article is an attempt to
find out the perception on handwriting among ninth standard school students
and its influence on their academic achievement. This study has revealed that
there is an impact of handwriting on academic achievement. Thereby it is
stressed that handwriting should be given equal importance while teachers
prepare their students for academic achievement.
Keywords:
handwriting, students, education system.
INTRODUCTION
There is a link between handwriting and brain development which shows that
sequential hand movements used in handwriting activate the regions of the brain
associated with thinking, short term memory and language. Poor handwriting
shows serious consequences on early literacy and academic performance.
Children who experience difficulty mastering this handwriting skill may avoid
writing and decide that they cannot write, leading to arrested writing
development .Handwriting is critical to the production of creative and well-
written text affecting both fluency and the quality of the composition. Illegible
handwriting also has secondary effects on school achievement and self-esteem.
In a technology-centered world, handwritten letters and notes are becoming less
and less common as people grow accustomed to typing on laptops or text
messaging on cell phones. Legible handwriting is an important skill – far too
important to be left to chance. If handwriting has a poor appearance, the writer
is judged poorly by our society. Failure to attain handwriting competency
during the school-age years often has far-reaching negative effects on both
academic success and self-esteem. If hand writing has to do just by writing a
sentence, this topic won’t be an attention seeking but hand writing has its
influence on memory, character, personality, perception, etc. Today our
education system is focusing more on theoretical curriculum which is leaving
no room for hand writing improvement among students. Education problems are
now nowhere treated with graphology which is highlighted in remedial classes
where students are forced on rote learning.
OBJECTIVES
1. To find out the perception on handwriting among secondary level students.
2. To find out the impact of personal variables like sex, among secondary
school students.
RESEARCH DESIGN
In view of nature of the problem, descriptive previous observation method is
adopted.
RESEARCH TOOL
To assess the perception on handwriting, 4 weeks observations conducted
during internship period in month of February. The observation was taken by
the essay writing, poster making, and many other activities. The marks of the
previous examination were taken for assessing their academic achievement.
SAMPLE
The sample is taken of 40 school students of Mansukhbhai Kothari national
School of Pune studying 9th standard were taken as sample using simple
random sampling technique.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Teachers while preparing their students for exams focus on how to read & learn
but not on how to write or present without knowing that if the matter has to
reach a second person it needs proper presentation of object. Earlier the only
mean to hire a person for job was through his handwriting analysis because it
directly reflects once personality in total for a strange boss. But now only rote
knowledge is assessed through objective type questions and may be this is the
reason that most of the organization fail in their motive. An answer sheet with
soothing hand writing acts as a candle which glows evaluator heart. Evaluator
reads personality of a student through his or her hand writing, it shows how
confident was the student while writing the exam which directly indicates ones
deep knowledge and preparation of exam. Teachers should be confident to
adopt hand writing as remedial measure to attain academic excellence. Worst
part is that when students reach secondary level in spite of being strong
theoretical knowledge cannot represent them as they expect because of the
difficulty they face in presenting their knowledge, proper time management as a
result of lack of writing practice, vocabulary problem , underdeveloped motor
skills etc., Extent of impact handwriting showers on academic achievement can
be transparently studied during public exam evaluation when both evaluator and
student are strange to each other. In this case only handwriting forms a base for
an evaluator to judge a student.
Summary of Finding
The finding was clear that the perception on handwriting among secondary level
students books like cursive writing, ruled notes and handwritten works. But as
they upgrade, impact on handwriting slowly vanishes among students mainly
at secondary level where they are stressed and deviated towards rote learning as
a medium to fetch marks. The writing abilities of students in their last three
years of high school, attempts to crucial, therefore to find out how teachers
and students perceive the writing process, for their One observation, however, is
that students tend to perceive.
The impact of personal variables like sex, among secondary school students
Based upon the findings of this, it was concluded that there is no difference
in students' handwriting. This implies that there are no longer distinguishing
cognitive, affective and psychomotor skill achievements of students in respect
of gender.
Boy (Sahil) Girl (Vaibhavi)
Group:1 Group:2
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATION
This study revealed that perception on handwriting has its impact on academic
achievement. Aesthetic handwriting acts as a candle which glows evaluators
mind. So teachers should take keen interest to develop aesthetic handwriting
among students while preparing them for academics which will aid them to be
an achiever. To achieve this education system should focus their attention on
following measures:
Evaluation system should emphasize equal weight-age for handwriting and
subject matter during evaluation.
Teacher should stress on neat presentation with aesthetic handwriting while
preparing students for exams.
Writing should be considered as way to increase retention power among weak
students during remedial teaching.
Curriculum should help to develop perceptual-sensory motor skills in
students.
CONCLUSION
Study has shown a significant relationship between perception on handwriting
and academic achievement which makes us strongly agree the fact that
handwriting plays an important role in academic achievement. It has opened a
new door to prepare students for high achievements and to inculcate writing
habits in them. Teachers’ attention seeks here that if a student fail to achieve as
expected in spite of strong knowledge base poor handwriting or lack of
presentation can be considered as a reason for their poor performance. By
analysing male and female perception on handwriting a significant difference is
drawn among their perception, female shows a high mean score of perception
on handwriting than male. Locality of school has shown no significant
difference for students ‘perception on handwriting It can thus be concluded that
perception of handwriting is not individualized as learning and interest or social
background has no role to play in this it fully depends upon the learning
environment and undoubtedly on teachers that how much they stress on
handwriting for a students’ achievement.
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Karlo Steinke (2009). Recognition of writers by handwriting images.
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Nora, M. and Jessie, P. (2010), Typing compared with handwriting for essay examinations at
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