A Study to assess the efficacy of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Internet addiction among students in selected commerce colleges at Rajkot
B. Archana*
Ph.D. Scholar, Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University (JJTU), Jhunjhunnu, Rajasthan, India.
*Corresponding Author E-mail: archanareddy252@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
A Study To Assess The Efficacy Of Video Assisted Teaching Program me On Internet Addiction Among Students In Selected Commerce Colleges At Rajkot. The Objectives of the study were a) To assess the knowledge regarding internet addiction among students in selected commerce colleges b) To assess the efficacy of video assisted teaching program me on internet addiction among students in selected commerce colleges c) To find out the association between post test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables. A quantitative research approach was used in the study to assess the efficacy of this study. The study was conducted in smt.M.T. Damsania commerce college, Rajkot. The findings of the study revealed that there was a marked increase in knowledge of students after exposing them to video assisted teaching program me on internet addiction. The mean pre-test knowledge score of subjects was 10.16 with mean percentage of 63.33, where as mean post-test knowledge score of subjects was 20.09 with mean percentage of 83.89. The mean post -test knowledge score was found to be significantly higher than pre-test knowledge score at 0.05 level of significance (t39= 23.816, p<0.01).
KEYWORDS: Internet addiction, Video assisted teaching program.
INTRODUCTION:
Internet is now part of the schools and colleges, where student’s utilies the Internet as a part of study tool in the campus and the libraries. There was a study over the addiction level to the Internet and use of electronics devices by Undergraduate students in the Universities of the Nigeria. Study found that these students are using the Internet every part of their day to day life. Similar study was carried out in the University of the Malaysia where up to out of total student 36 percent students spend per week at least1-10 hours on the Internet. Sending or receiving the Emails, reading the information, watching the online games, communication with the fellow students is the major activities of the students. Due this the socialization of the students is going down.
Internet provide many facilities like online gaming etc because of internet addiction it effect on students’ academic performance also. One study from china shows that the students nowadays spends lots of time over the playing the online games, online chatting. This has decreased the performance of the students periodically. This have results in the symptoms like anger, depression, moody swings, anxiety, fear, irritability, sadness, loneness, boredom, restlessness and upset digestion problems.
There are many devices to use internet but mobile and computer are cheapest and easy to handle devices. Currently smart phone or mobile are a popular devices to internet use. Mobile is digital devices so used different operating system and also used that based apps e.g. games. Mobile is easy to handle so its effect such as internet addiction. The cell phone is used for communicate with each other, we can communicate with friends and family also keep relation healthy even when user are far away from each other.
NEED FOR THE STUDY:
Internet Usages in India have growth around more than 11 times over last 10 years. This boom is not only for metros but in cities and villages also. The top eight cities this growth is very faster than villages and cities. Use of internet in schools and colleges is the one of reason of fast growth of internet. More than 78%lakh people use for email, nearly 38% use for information search in 2000 but now it’s grown up to 25 times more. More than 65%use for general information searching 50%use for educational information 80% use for entertainment purpose.
In India around 120 million people use internet. Mostly for communication with social networking used internet and also information searching. Internet also used for communication, social networking, getting information and influencing India’s consumers is on peer with that of developed country. Currently cost of internet access is going down; India appears to be leading for and Internet boom.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
1) To assess the knowledge regarding internet addiction among students in selected commerce colleges.
2) To assess the efficacy of video assisted teaching program me on internet addiction among students in selected commerce colleges.
3) To find out the association between post- test level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables.
MATERIAL AND METHOD:
Research design: Pre experimental one group pre test and post test design was adopted for this study
Research study setting: The study was conducted at smt. M.T. Damsania commerce college, Rajkot.
Population: The total group of individual people or things meeting the designed criteria of interest to the researcher.
Sample: Students studying in smt.M.T.Damsania commerce college, Rajkot
Sample size: In this study sample size is 100
Sampling technique: Non probability, purposive sampling technique was adopted to select the sample from the selected area.
RESULTS:
· The results of the study revealed that there was a marked increase in knowledge of students after exposing them to video assisted teaching program me on internet addiction.
· The mean pre-test knowledge score of subjects was 10.16 with mean percentage of 63.33, where as mean post-test knowledge score of subjects was 20.09 with mean percentage of 83.89.
· The mean post -test knowledge score was found to be significantly higher than pre-test knowledge score at 0.05 level of significance (t39= 23.816, p<0.01).
CONCLUSION:
The video assisted teaching program me delivered through projector, chart, pamphlet was found to be an effective strategy for providing information and for improving the knowledge of students, it showed that there is a great need for health personnel to educate the students regarding internet addiction to reduce the complications of addiction.
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Received on 05.07.2021 Modified on 17.09.2021
Accepted on 11.10.2021 ©A&V Publications All right reserved
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