Usage of ICT by the Students in Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu and Kashmir

Abstract

Information and Communication Technology originally is applied to serve as a means of improving efficiency in the educational process. In the present study an attempt was made to check the difference in the usage of ICT between the boy and girl students of Higher Secondary School of Jammu & Kashmir. The sample of the study consisted 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls) selected by random sampling technique from Higher Secondary School of Kashmir. The questionnaire was administered for collecting the data which was constructed by the present investigator .The data was analyzed with the help of percentage and was represented by the graph. The finding of the study shows that the usage of ICT by the students in the Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. The finding(s) also reveal that the usage of ICT by the boy students is higher as compared to that of girl students.