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Shehnaz, A Babi. (2006). Effectiveness of Teaching methods based on Puppet-show and its Videography for the Teaching of Language and History. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Saurashtra University .

The following were the objectives of the study: (1) To prepare puppet-shows for the selected units of Hindi and History of the syllabus of standard nine. (2) To prepare the video lessons based on the Videography of puppet-shows of the selected units of standard nine. (3) To study the effectiveness of the Teaching Method based on the puppet-show with reference to the Traditional Method of Teaching for the Achievement of students learning. (4) To study the Effectiveness of the video lesson based on the Videography of puppet-show with reference to the traditional method of Teaching for the Achievement of students learning. (5) To study the effectiveness of the Teaching Method based on the puppet-show with reference to the video lesson based on the Videography of puppet-show for the Achievement of students learning.

Through purposive sampling method girl students studying in a Gujarati medium school of Jetpur city and Rajkot district were selected in the sample. The sample consisted of 121 female students for the experiment. For both experimental groups the samples were 39 and 40 while for the Control Group it was 42.

Teacher made tests of selected five units of Hindi and five of History as post-test prepared by the investigator using Norm Reference Testing procedure was the tool.

Three equal groups only Posttest Experimental Design was selected for the purpose of the study. It was Counter Balanced Rotated Group Design and the groups were equal on the basis of students Achievement in 8th standard final examination. Teaching Methods with three levels, namely, Methods based on puppet-show, Videography of puppet-show and Herbert s model of Teaching was independent variable. The Achievement after learning the content through selected methods was dependent variable. The teacher, content, time duration of Teaching, school environment and especially the vividness of the experiment were controlled.

The data were analysed with the help of ANOVA followed by t-test after testing the equalization of three groups.

The following were the findings: (1) Video lessons based on Videography of puppet-show were more effective than the Methods based on puppet-show and traditional model. The Method based on puppet show was more effective than the traditional method for the Achievement of girl students learning. (2) The retention for the three units out of five was found for the subjects Hindi and History and the result was same for selected all the three methods of Teaching.

Keyword(s): Teaching methods, Puppet-show , Videography, Teaching of Language , History