Attitude Towards Ict

STUDIES RELATED TO ICT This topic covers a total of 48 studies out of which 32 were conducted in India and 16 were conducted abroad. This topic mainly focuses on the attitude towards ICT, awareness towards ICT and usage of ICT by prospective teachers, teachers and undergraduate students.

A) STUDIES CONDUCTED IN INDIA

Arul Sekar M.J. (2016) has focused on the “Awareness of B.Ed., students towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT)”. Results revealed that the B.Ed. students had moderate level of ICT awareness and that gender, type of institution and educational qualification of the B.Ed. students did not influence their ICT awareness.

Binulal K. R. (2016) studied about “Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning: use and perception

and Tholappan A. (2016) explored into the“Awareness and perception on blended learning among B.Ed., trainees at Tiruchirappalli District”. The study concluded that gender influenced awareness and perception whereas residence and subject stream influenced awareness and did not influence their perception on Blended learning.

Arul Sekar M.J. and Arul Lawrence A.S. (2015) have found about the “Attitude of B.Ed., students towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT)”. The study revealed that no significant difference was found between B.Ed. students’ attitude towards ICT based on their gender, discipline, course of study and locality, but B.Ed., students of aided colleges of education were better in their attitude towards ICT than B.Ed., students of Government college.

Deepshikha (2015) carried out “A comparative study of impact of ICT based methods in academic achievement of teacher trainees in relation to traditional teaching strategies”. The study has revealed that students taught using ICT tools achieved much higher mean level when compared to the students taught through traditional method of

and Anandan K. (2013) studied about “Attitude towards e-Learning in classroom instruction among the B.Ed., Students at Colleges of Education”. Findings of their study indicated that a significant difference was found between the attitude of B.Ed., students towards e-learning for classroom instruction with respect to their discipline of the Subject.

Muyeen Maqbool Mir (2013) conducted a study to reveal the “ICT Literacy of Student-Teachers of Teacher Training Institutes”. The study indicated that the status of ICT literacy was average in student teachers of Hyderabad city. It was found that student teachers of private teacher training institutes of Hyderabad City were found better in ICT literacy than their counterparts of Govt. teacher training institutes of Hyderabad City.

Pratik Upadhyaya (2013) revealed about the “B. Ed., student‘s attitude towards computer – a study”. The findings of the study indicated that male and female B. Ed students did not differ from one another on their attitude towards computer; and B. Ed., students of Science steam had more favourable attitude towards computer than their Arts stream