A Study on Awareness of Trained Teachers in relation to Information and Communication Technology

This study was undertaken to study the level of ICT awareness among the trained teachers, to compare the level of ICT awareness among male and female as well as rural and urban trained teachers. The data was collected by self made questionnaire form in which thirty different secondary schools five from urban and five from rural of each three districts in West Bengal. Ten secondary trained teachers were allowed to administer the questionnaire from each school and the questionnaire was administered personally for each teacher. In that way all total three hundreds trained teachers participated to administer the questionnaire wherein fifty questions were pioneer and each question was carrying one mark. Based upon the scores of questionnaire, five categories were used like 1-10 very poor, 11-20 poor, 21-30 average, 31-40 good and 41-50 very good. To analyse the data Frequencies, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation (S.D.) and 't' test were used. Result revealed that there was overall the level of ICT awareness was poor, there was no significant difference in the level of ICT awareness among the male and female trained teachers and there was a significant difference between the urban and rural trained teachers.