A STUDY ON COMPUTER LITERACY PROGRAMME FOR VILLAGE HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND EDUCATION

In our contribution we focused on finding out the computer literacy of higher secondary school students. This paper presents the results of Computer literacy questionnaire. Questions in the computer literacy questionnaire (CLQ) were concerned with the usefulness of Computer Literacy Programme (CLP), Learning Experience, Teaching efficiency of students, Community wise participation, and gender wise participation. Questions were generally open ended, but we offered possibilities too. The CLQ was filled by students (n = 97) of village higher secondary school. The number of boys (n =58) and girls was similar (n = 39). We used Pearson chi - square test for finding of statistically significant difference between genders. In our research we found that nearly all students use computers. Most students, nearly 80 %, belong to other backward class community. About quarter of all students use the computer at home. This is caused by the fact that service for access to the computer is still expensive for the most of people in Tamilnadu government school. We found that the most of the students understands computer. It means that computer literacy of students is improving. Girls scores higher marks than boys. The computer literacy quotients of girls are more than boys.

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