Access on Knowledge and Awareness of Smart Classroom Teaching among Secondary School Teachers: An Explanatory Study

Abstract

The present study is an analysis of knowledge and awareness of secondary school teachers on Smart Classroom teaching of Kandhamal and Nayagarh districts of Odisha. This study investigated 200 teachers from both of the districts taking 100 from each by stratified random sampling technique. The aim of the study were (a) to examine knowledge and awareness of smart classroom teaching among teachers at the secondary school level of Nayagarh and Kandhaml district and (b) to compare the difference of knowledge and awareness of secondary school teachers on Smart Classroom teaching of the both districts of Nayagarh and Kandhamal in Odisha in terms of gender,location and training on Smart Classroom teaching received by the teachers.. For conducting such a study the investigator has used Mean, SD and t-test formulae for analysis the data with reference to location, gender and training on smart classroom teaching. The findings showed that knowledge and awareness on Smart Classroom teaching in terms of gender and location did not differ, but the trained (Training on smart classroom teaching) teachers of both the districts were more aware and knowledgeable on Smart Classroom Teaching than the untrained teachers. Therefore, there was no difference between the secondary school teachers of Nayagarh and Kandhamal districts in terms of the gender and locations. But as a whole the teachers from both of the districts, there was a difference between the trained and untrained teachers on knowledge and awareness on Smart Classroom teaching.