KNOWLEDGE AND UTILIZATION PATTERN OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN JUNAGADH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY 2813
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2019-06
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JAU, JUNAGADH
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is global term that
incorporates all advancements that provide access to the information through
telecommunications. ICT tools and services have been considered as powerful
services that enable the educational change and reform. They are being not only used
in administrative duties in education but also in the instruction of students. Within the
classroom, ICT services are used for creative, communicative, collaborative and task based activities during instruction and also in evaluating the students. Use of ICT
services in education management is becoming compelling necessity throughout the
world. Considering this, the present study was taken out for the measure of
knowledge and utilization pattern of ICT services including their association with
different selected characteristics of the respondents.
The study was conducted in the six different colleges of JAU, Junagadh and
JAU, Veraval. A total of 170 postgraduate students studying in Junagadh Agricultural
University were selected for the investigation. The data was collected by the
personnel interview method through the developed and pre-tested schedule. The data
collected was further classified, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted in order to make
findings meaningful. Statistical tools such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard
deviation and correlation co-efficient were used for the study.
The results of the research indicated that 74.12 per cent of the postgraduate
students were in the age group of 23 to 24 years, about 56.47 per cent were male
respondents, 51.76 per cent had Gujarati as their medium education, 28.24 per cent of
the student’s parents had education up to middle school and 38.82 per cent of had 8.1
to 8.5 of OGPA in respect to personnel characteristics. Regarding socio-economic
characteristics, 40.59 per cent of the students had low family income, 55.29 per cent
had monthly expenditure of ₹ 2501 to ₹ 5000, 79.41 per cent belonged to medium
sized family and 50.00 per cent were from rural background. Corresponding to the
communicational characteristics, ICT services such as Wikipedia and YouTube were known to the students by ‘themselves’. While, Email, MOOCs, WhatsApp, Facebook
and Janvani FM were known through friends, parents and relatives. Online thesis
repositories, CeRA, MS–software, Google, statistical packages, Kiosk and
agricultural web portals were known through teaching and learning process. ICT
services such as Email, MOOCs, Wikipedia, WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, MS–
software, Google, Janvani FM, statistical packages and agricultural web portals were
accessible through the self owned facility. Online thesis repositories, CeRA and Kiosk
were accessible through the facility provided by the departmental or college or
university. In relation to psychological characteristics, the preferred job by the students
is academic teaching.
The 58.24 per cent of the postgraduate students were found in the category of
medium level of knowledge regarding ICT services and 57.06 per cent of them
belonged to the category of medium utilization of ICT services.
Out of 12 variables, 7 variables namely age, parent’s education, academic
performance, family annual income, monthly expenditure pattern, source of
information regarding ICT and accessibility to the selected ICT services had a
positive and significant relation with their knowledge level and utilization pattern of
ICT services and the rest 5 variables had non-significant relationship.
The major constraints faced by the postgraduate students in utilization of ICT
services were limited accessibility and network connection, hardship in finding the
relevant content and cannot download full articles in time. The important suggestions
offered by the respondents to overcome the constraints were workshops and specialised
training on statistical packages should be organised, full length research paper should
be made accessible to students and internet facility should be ensured in the hostel
(Wi-Fi) with adequate strength.