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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established on October 1, 1986. The University has 5 Colleges, 27 Research Stations, 6 Agriculture Extension Education Centers, 6 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and ATIC. The University has its jurisdiction over 7 districts namely Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, and Uttar Kannada in northern Karnataka. Greater diversity exists in soil types, climate, topography cropping and farming situations. The jurisdiction includes dry-farming to heavy rainfall and irrigated area. Important crops of the region include sorghum, cotton, rice, pulses, chilli, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, wheat, safflower etc. The region is also known for many horticultural crops. Considerable progress has been registered in the field of education, research and extension from this University.

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Subject: Human Development × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D × Start date: 2002 × End date: 2009 ×
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    Performance, Constraints and Problems of Elected Women Representatives of Gram Panchyat in Dharwad Taluk with Special Reference to Family
    (University of Agricultural Sciences ;Dharwad, 2002) Kukanur, Hulagevva; K. Saroja
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    Psychological Profile of abused children & intervention scholastic achievement
    (UAS Dharwad, 2007) Saraswati C.Hunshal; V.Goankar
    The study was undertaken during 2003-05 with the objectives to study family background, prevalence and factors related to types of child abuse, adjustment, perception about parenting and its relationship with adjustment, level of learning abilities and impact of intervention on learning abilities among institutionalized children. The population comprised 150 children residing in four juvenile institutions of Belgaum division in Karnataka state of which 148 children who were neglected, physically and multiply abused were selected for detailed study. Background information was collected using questionnaire. Information about social, emotional, educational adjustments of children and their perception about different parenting models was collected using Sinha and Singh (1997) and Bhardwaj (1998) scales respectively. Learning abilities and academic performance of children was collected from teachers and school registers. School based intervention programs for staff members and children were carried out. Intervention for children focused on improving their learning abilities and this was done by using intervention package. Pre and post assessment about learning difficulties was made using NIMHAN’S Index–II (Kapur et al., 1991). The results revealed that prevalence of neglect was highest among institutional children. Incidence of neglect was higher among girls, while physical and multiple abuse were more among boys. Significant association was found between caste, family size, family structure, alcoholic habit of father and types of child abuse. Majority of children had unsatisfactory adjustment in social, emotional, educational areas. Majority of children perceived that their parents had rejecting attitude towards them, careless about them and indulgent in their interpersonal relationships. Positive relationship was observed between children perception about different parenting models and their adjustment. Further, 39.19 per cent of children were poor in reading, 21.62 per cent poor in writing and 46.62 per cent poor in arithmetic. School based intervention had significant effect in reducing reading and writing difficulties and improving arithmetic operations among children.
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    Instructional strategies to accelerate science learning among slow learners
    (UAS Dharwad, 2006) Lata L.Pujar; V.Goankar
    A study on ‘Instructional strategies to accelerate science learning among slow learners’ was carried out in Dharwad during 2004 –05. The objectives of the study were to know the prevalence of low achievers in schools, to develop instructional strategies based on the prescribed syllabus to teach science subject, to know the influence of gender, ordinal position, type and size of the family, parent’s education, occupation and per capita income of the family on the rate of learning science among slow learners, to study the impact of various instructional strategies developed in learning science among slow learners and to know the teacher’s opinion towards the different instructional strategies. The slow learners were identified from both Government and Private Kannada medium primary schools using four screening methods viz., academic achievement, teacher’s assessment, intelligence test and achievement test. The sample for the study comprised of 122 slow learners both from. Correlation coefficient, t- test and chi square tests were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that, the prevalence of low achievers was higher in Government school studying in third standard compared to Private and Aided schools. Gender, ordinal position, type and size of the family did not influence the rate of learning among slow learners. Whereas, parent’s education, occupation and per capita income of the family had positive and significant influence on the rate of learning science among slow learners. Teaching using the different instructional strategies was found better than conventional method. Teaching through model was found to be the most effective instructional strategy followed by charts, picture book, individual instruction and peer tutoring. However, statistically non-significant difference was found between the posttest and retention test mean scores of both experimental and control group students. Teacher’s assessment revealed that all most all of them had very good opinion towards using the picture book in teaching followed by models, charts, individualized instruction and peer tutoring.