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Subject: Human Development and family studies × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2010 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Assessment of Academic Readiness in Private School Children and its Knowledge among Teachers
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2020) Shatakshi Singh; Vig, Deepika
    The present study investigated the academic readiness of private school children and its knowledge among teachers. The total sample of the study comprised of 200 children of class-I (i.e. 100 rural and 100 urban) and 100 teachers (i.e. 50 rural and 50 urban) teaching class-I. The sample was randomly selected from five private schools of rural and urban areas of Ludhiana district. Self structured Academic Readiness Checklist was used to assess its different components viz. pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-arithmetic readiness of class-I children. Similarly self structured Teachers‟ Knowledge Questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of rural and urban teachers teaching class-I. The results revealed that most of the urban children were found to have high level of skills in all the domains of academic readiness, whereas rural children were at average level of skills. Locale differences revealed that urban girls and boys displayed better academic readiness skills as compared to rural girls and boys. In rural area, boys performed better than girls while in urban area girls were better than boys in overall academic readiness. The analysis of teachers‟ knowledge regarding academic readiness indicated that urban teachers had better knowledge than rural teachers. Rural and urban teachers with regular degree had better knowledge than their counterparts with correspondence degree. The correlation analysis showed positive and significant relationship of educational qualification as well as teaching experience with knowledge of the teachers which concluded that more the educational qualification and teaching experience of the teachers, better was the knowledge regarding academic readiness in young children.
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    Social media usage and socio-emotional intelligence among adolescents
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-, 2020) Kaura, Heena; Saini, Sarita
    The present study was undertaken on a sample of 200 adolescents randomly selected from four Government Senior Secondary Schools of Ludhiana city of Punjab. A SelfStructured Personal Information Sheet and Social Media Usage Questionnaire were used to document demographic profile and assess Social Media Usage among selected adolescents. Social Intelligence Questionnaire by Stellar (2014) and Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire by London Leadership Academy (2016) were utilized to assess Socio-Emotional Intelligence among respondents. Irrespective of gender WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram were found to be the most frequently used social media sites among adolescents. All the respondents predominantly used these sites for the purpose of spending leisure time. Boys were found to be more frequent and active users of social media sites in terms of having more number of functional accounts, duration of usage, varied activities on social media and posts on social media and had significantly more followers on Facebook and Instagram. Girls as compared to their male counterparts were better aware about the privacy issues related to social media usage and refrained from sharing the confidential information but they strongly perceived it as an influencing platform. Irrespective of gender, majority of adolescents reported ‘high or medium level’ of Social as well as Emotional Intelligence. Social media usage was found to be significantly positively correlated with ‘demonstrative empathy’ and ‘tolerance’ dimensions of Social Intelligence among girls as well as ‘empathy’ dimension of Emotional Intelligence and ‘overall’ Emotional Intelligence among boys. Further, non-significant contribution of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence was ascertained towards Social Media Usage among adolescents.