Effectiveness of Literacy & Numeracy Drive (LND): A Students' Perspective

This paper discussed the effectiveness of English language software Literacy & Numeracy Drive (LND) used in the public sector primary schools of Punjab province, Pakistan. A mobile based application named as “Literacy & Numeracy Drive (LND)” is currently in use to teach students of Grade 03 on a tablet for learning English, Urdu and Mathematics. An official named as “Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant (MEA)” visits every school allocated by authorities once in a month and selects 07-10 students randomly to evaluate them on his own tablet by recording answers of multiple questions related to English, Urdu and Mathematics. After the evaluation, MEA uploads the results of respective school on official portal. A quantitative research was adopted to conduct this study in which 300 participants from different schools of district Sheikhupura were selected to measure the effectiveness of LND. The results reveal that LND application was not found effective due to the issues in terms of nonavailability of technology at home, language, content, assessment, usability and design. Further, students recommended game based learning consisting of interactive interface, phonics, animations, relevant content and assessment.