A Comparative Study Of Attitude Of Senior Secondary School Students Of Science And Commerce Stream Towards E-Learning

Abstract

  The advancement of Use of technology in education system has been increasing day by day since the beginning of 21st century. Information technology in education system has impacted the teaching learning process. Teaching learning process went through  lot of changes from traditional teaching system to the New teaching process using ICT in class. During covid-19 (Pandemic), when teaching and learning took a 360-degree,  E-learning was the only way to impart education.  It’s the best way to provide knowledge in a very easy, interesting and comfort manner with deeper understanding of a subject matter. E-learning offers time and space savings, as well as cost-effectiveness and flexibility to teaching-learning process. Teachers’ and students’ attitudes, perspectives, motivation and interest are crucial factors in achieving a beneficial outcome from E-learning.

   The study was focused on students’ Attitudes toward e-learning. The study is quantitative in nature. The purpose of the study was to examine the Senior Secondary Science and Commerce stream Students’ opinions’ towards e-leaning in Noida ( Gautam Buddh Nagar) For this purpose, 100 samples were collected where 30 were science stream students and 70 commerce stream students.  A standardized test was administered to collect data from the samples named as “Attitude towards e-learning scale” developed by Dimpal Rani. Collected data were organized and tabulated on the basis of scores and used Mean, Standard deviation and ‘t’ test for analysing collected data. In this study, it is found that the both science and commerce stream students of Senior Secondary school have average level of attitudes and there is no difference in attitudes of students of both the streams towards e-learning.

Keywords:- Attitudes, senior-secondary students, e-learning