Appraisal of Learning of Skill Based Subject through WhatsApp by Urban Under Graduate Students
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Research in Journalism & Mass Communication - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
As the social media have penetrated the lives of student community, it can be used for teaching and learning of specified academic subjects. In addition, it can be used for the conduct and valuation of tests that are performed as soon as the teaching and learning process is over. In this connection, the present research was devoted to use WhatsApp as an educational tool for teaching and learning the Life Skill (LS) based subject. It was also devoted to study its effectiveness as an educational tool among the urban undergraduate student community. In the present research, the WhatsApp group of students was formed and the LS based digital modules were systematically posted to them. The students had learnt the educational contents in the modules and participated in the attitudinal, performance and skill tests. The attitudinal test results showed that the student participants were optimistic towards learning through social media. The performance based results showed that the academic performance scores of the students varied from 64.0% to 80.0% with the standard deviation of 4.95 in the average score of 71.0%. The skill based results showed that the skill scores of the students ranged between 60.0% and 76.0% with the standard deviation of 5.73 in the average score of 67.5%. As these were constructive connection among LS based digital module, learning through social media and performance of student community, it could be concluded that the social media would be effectively used in the teaching learning process of LS subjects especially for the benefit of student community.
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T Shylaja
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