Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

AWARENESS OF ICT IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

P. Mailavelan, Dr. M. Baskaran

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The study was conducted to find out the level of awareness among secondary school students with respect to gender, locale, medium of instruction and type of management. Survey method of research has been used in the present study. To find out the ICT awareness among secondary students, the Researcher was adapted Awareness towards ICT Scale developed and standardized by P.Pachaiyappan (2015). The researcher randomly selected 270 secondary school students in and around Chennai of Tamilnadu. The data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and ‘t’– test and ANOVA. The study results reveal that there is no significant difference between the male and female secondary school students with respect to ICT awareness. Urban school students have more awareness towards ICT compared to rural school students. The results reveal that there is no significant difference between the Tamil and English medium secondary school students with respect to ICT awareness.  It was found that the government and private school students have more ICT awareness compared to their counterparts.It was found that there is no significant difference between the male and female secondary school students with respect toAcademic Achievement. Urban school students have higher Academic Achievement compared to rural school students. The results reveal that there is no significant difference between the Tamil and English medium secondary school students with respect to Academic Achievement. It was found that there is no significant difference among the types of management of secondary school students with respect toAcademic Achievement. The study explored that there is a positive correlation between Awareness of ICT and Academic Achievement of secondary school students.

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P.Mailavelan, Dr.M.Baskaran, AWARENESS OF ICT IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2018

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