Impact of Interactive Teaching Strategies on Student Engagement in Commerce Education: A Study of Higher Secondary Students in Harda District
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The current research examines how interactive teaching methods affect upper secondary students' interest in commerce education in Madhya Pradesh's Harda district. Stratified random sampling was used to gather data from 200 commerce students using a quantitative research approach. The results show a strong positive correlation between student engagement characteristics and three interactive teaching strategies: gamification, experiential learning, and digital tool integration. Gamification and digital technologies were the next best predictors of total student involvement, after experiential learning. While gender disparities were not significant, there were notable variations in the levels of participation between students at government and private institutions. The research gives suggestions for curriculum designers, educators, and policymakers and adds empirical data from a semi-urban Indian setting to the expanding corpus of work on creative pedagogical techniques in commerce education.
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