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Title:
ATTITUDE TOWARDS USE OF TECHNOLOGY AMONG PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC STREAMS

Authors:
Dr Ram Mehar, Rupneet Kaur Jassar

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1Dr Ram Mehar, 2Rupneet Kaur Jassar
1. Associate Professor, Department of Education, USOL, Panjab University, Chandigarh
2. Assistant Professor, Khalsa College of Education Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar

MLA 8
Mehar, Dr Ram, and Rupneet Kaur Jassar. "ATTITUDE TOWARDS USE OF TECHNOLOGY AMONG PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC STREAMS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 4, no. 2, Feb. 2019, pp. 1221-1232, ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=90. Accessed Feb. 2019.
APA
Mehar, D., & Jassar, R. (2019, February). ATTITUDE TOWARDS USE OF TECHNOLOGY AMONG PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC STREAMS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 4(2), 1221-1232. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=90
Chicago
Mehar, Dr Ram, and Rupneet Kaur Jassar. "ATTITUDE TOWARDS USE OF TECHNOLOGY AMONG PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC STREAMS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 4, no. 2 (February 2019), 1221-1232. Accessed February, 2019. ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=90.

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Abstract:
The present study attitude towards use of technology among private and Government school teachers in relation to academic streams. The sample consisted of 140 teachers of XI and XII (science and arts streams) class from seven private and seven Government schools of Chandigarh city. Attitude towards use of technology scale (Adopted version of Attitude towards e-media scale by Bhushan and Mehra 2004) was used to collect the data. Descriptive analysis technique like mean and standard deviations were worked out to study the general nature of the sample employed, t-ratio with independent mean was used to analyse the data. It was found that (i) the private school teachers had more favorable attitude towards the use of technology as compared to government school teachers (ii) The science stream teachers had more favorable attitude towards the use of technology as compared to arts stream teachers.

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