Abstract:
Pakistan rank 2nd in number to have most out of school children. There are 22.8 million
out of school children in Pakistan representing 44 percent of the total population. Along
with poverty, health issues, lack of parental involvement in child 's academics, schools,
lack of extrinsic motivation and engaging content at school is also one of the main
reasons to keep these children out of schools. Effectiveness of UDL plugged/unplugged
pedagogy was deployed and quasi experimental design methodology was used to check
which pedagogy is more effective in slum school students of 40 participants.
Pre/posttest assessment analysis were carried to check the impact of the aforementioned
methods. Students were taught a lesson in a traditional way then UDL plugged
pedagogy was applied; their performance improved by 34 percent following
improvement in performance by 47.5 percent in other lesson taught through unplugged
UDL method. 3rd lesson was adopted using Quasi experimental design methodology to
compare both plugged and unplugged UDL pedagogies; UDL unplugged pedagogy was
14 percent higher than UDL plugged pedagogy in performance of students learning.
This study concludes that UDL pedagogy is more effective than traditional teaching in
increasing academic performance of slum school‘s student. It further reveals that UDL
unplugged pedagogy is more effective than UDL plugged pedagogy in improving
learning of Out of school children
