Undergraduate Projects: The Benefits Of Small-Group Reading Among Students

 

Understanding a text is the desire of all students especially undergraduate students that are in their final year in various tertiary institution in Nigeria. Most of the institutions have put in various resources to ensure students improve the level of comprehension during classes; that was why there is the introduction of small-group reading among students by their project supervisor.

Small-group reading is an assisted literary experience in which the teacher supports and guides students on their instructional level before, during, and after reading. The instructional level of students is assessed through teacher observation and ongoing evaluations such as informal reading inventories.

The introduction of small-group reading is with hope that its inception will influence the ability of students to churn out good undergraduate project topics with less supervision and also to master the act of research project writing and other departmental courses and assignments.

Reading Difficulties Among Students

Reading difficulties have always being the challenges of most students in Nigeria; there are so many causes of reading difficulties among students; some of the reasons are:

a.   Family background: Family background has a lot of roles to play in the reading ability of students especially those in their final year. Most of the undergraduate are not from wealthy homes; some are seeing themselves through school. Some hawk to make a living. The result of these strenuous activities will be seen during reading and other departmental activities.

b.   Learning environment: Another reason for reading difficulties is the learning environment. Most schools do not have good learning environment; the school library is filled with outdated books and the classrooms are choked with cluster of students. The noise as a result of crown and discomfort among students will affect their reading ability and comprehension.

The Benefits Of Group Reading Among Students

There are so many benefits of small-group reading; some of the benefits of small group reading are:

 

Increases The Rate Of Assimilation Among Students: Small-group reading help increases the rate of assimilation among undergraduate students in Nigeria. Small-group reading has a ways of getting to student to concentrate on their research work and other departmental courses and assignment. The types of reading give room for question and answers among students by so doing improving the rate of assimilation and retention among students.

Promotes Sharing Of Ideas And Information

Small-group reading promotes information sharing among students. There has always being a kind of variations among students in terms information exposure and knowledge about final year projects. The students with more information about their research will share their knowledge with other so as to help others meet up with their research project deadline.

Increase The Rate At Which Problems Are Solved

With the improved rate of information sharing among students in small-group, there will also be increase rate at which problems are solved among students. The problems associated with undergraduate projects is usually much; with the inception of small-group reading and information sharing this problem will be reduced to the barest minimum.

Conclusion

In conclusion the benefit associated with small-group reading is endless; some of the benefits covered on this article are solution to reading difficulties, increases the rate of assimilation among students, promotes sharing of ideas and information and increase the rate at which problems are solved.