Status Of Use Of Computer in Classroom Learning Among Secondary School of Dang District
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Abstract
The research entitled "Status of Use of Computer in Classroom Learning
among Secondary School of Dang District" was done in Dang district Nepal among
secondary school students. The aim of this research was to find out the status of use of
computer in classroom learning among secondary school of Dang district Nepal.
Cross-sectional survey research design was employed in this research. Three
hundred and ninety four (394) students from class 9 and 10 were participated in the
research where multi-stage cluster sampling techniques was used in the research. Data
were collected by using self-administered questionnaire. Collected data was entered
using Microsoft Excel and analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social
Science (IBM SPSS) version 17. Frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation
and level were major statistical techniques used in the research. Finding of the
research indicates that about half of schools have practice of teaching and learning
through computer. Most of the teachers did not used computers in classroom teaching.
Most of the schools (81.7%) in Dang district do not have projector facility for
classroom teaching in secondary level schools. Only about half of the schools have
availability of Internet facility. Barriers of using computer was high ;majority of the
schools have insufficient computers based on number of students, majority of the
schools lack good feature of computers in their laboratory, majority of the schools did
not have computer software for the students. One-fourth of the students did not have
sufficient budget for digital resources at home. More than half of the students were
not using computer for educational software such as database, spreadsheets and
charting/graphing however they used it for normal purpose. In overall percentage of
strongly agree and agree are very high in student motivation and teaching and
learning related items and reverse in challenges related items which indicate that use
of computer is very beneficial for several aspect of teaching and learning process at
secondary level school. Hence researcher recommended that Ministry of Education
and NCED should provide on-site training and coaching, workshop and conference to
secondary level school teachers. Similarly education board of government of Nepal
should apply e-learning training program and teaching learning activities for the
application of computers in secondary schools.
As this study was conducted among only secondary level schools, this might
not represent the status of overall computer use in classroom learning. Therefore,
further studies are recommended without excluding those lower and higher level
schools and colleges. Furthermore, the study suggests the need of further research in a large scale using both quantitative and qualitative methods.