GRIN Verlag Attitude towards ICT of prospective teachers: In Srikakulam Dt Andhra Pradesh, India

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Education - Educational Tests & Measurements, grade: A, , course: Ph.D, language: English, abstract: Attitude towards ICT of Prospective teachers in relations to certain veriables namely gender, locality, educational qualifications, marital status and specializing subjects were incorporated into the present study. Normative survey method was used in this study. There are 17 B.Ed. Colleges located in Srikakulam district. Geographically the Srikakulam district is one of the north Andhra districts and the majority of the students of this district willing to take teaching as their profession. All the 651 students who are studying the second year (B.Ed.) are selected from the population by using Purposive sampling technique in view to assess accurate perception. To test the hypotheses simple statistical techniques such as mean, chi-square and ANNOVA were used at relevant places in the study. Charts and graphs were used in appropriate places in the study. The cross section analysis method was followed for the explanation of some tables in the study. The major findings of the present study revealed that the majority of the respondents have favourable attitude towards ICT, at the same time there is a significant difference among the respondents by gender, education and living area in this regard.