Effectiveness of Using Technology in Teaching Short Stories

Abstract

This thesis ‘Effectiveness of Using Technology in Teaching short Stories’ has beencarried out practically and comparatively to find out the effectiveness of using technology(mainly Laptop, PowerPoint presentation, Multimedia projector and the Internet)whileteaching short stories. To carry out this research 50 students of grade 12 of Shree KrishnaSnatak Campus were selected as the sample population and this Sample population wasdivided into two equivalent groups, namely controlled and experimental oneon the basisof odd and even marks obtained in the pre-test. After the division of the group, bothgroups were taught the same subject matter differently i.e. the controlled group wastaught through the traditional mode of teaching as usual whereas the experimental groupwas taught through the use of technology. In other words, the procedure for teaching tothe experimental group was like showing the real photograph of the story writer alongwith the background information in slide shows as far as practicable followed by the imaginary pictures of the characters along with their characterization and role-relationship. Similarly, at the end the summary of the story is presented in Power Point presentation whereby the students are asked to visualize the whole story critically so thatthey can become more critical and creative. In case of difficult words put forward by the students, they were first encouraged to induce the meaning in group themselves but if they failed to do so then, the teacher supplies the contextual meaning. After the completion of the teaching for thirty days, a post-test was administered to find out the effectiveness of newly introduced variable i.e. the technology. The post-test scores of the experimental group exceeded the pre-test scores and post-test scores of the controlled group. It shows that the use of technology in teaching short stories is effective. This thesis is divided into four chapters .Each chapter is divided into different sub chapters. The first chapter introduces the study in terms of general background, literaturere view, objectives and the significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted in the study. Methodology consists of the sub-topics like sources of data collection, sample population, sampling procedures, tools for the data collection and the limitations of the study. Chapter three represents analysis and interpretation of the collected data. In this chapter the collected data are analyzed and interpreted with the help of different statistical and descriptive tools. Finally, the chapter four incorporates the findings and some pedagogical implications of the study. The reference and appendix are the concluding part of the research.