Perception of College Students on Learning through ICT

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) is the catchall phrase used to describe a range of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information. The present study was conducted to explore the perceptions of college students on learning through ICT with respect to their gender and academic streams. Data was collected from 200 college students of GDC Kulgam by simple random sampling technique. A self-constructed questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive (Mean, SD and Percentage) and Inferential statistics (t-test) were used for analysis of data. The findings of the study showed that 40.5% of respondents have high perception of learning through ICT, 54.5% falls in average level of perception and 5% possess low perception for learning through ICT. No significant difference was found in male and female respondent’s learning perceptions through ICT, however significant difference was found in the perception of college students on learning through ICT in terms of their academic streams. Results further revealed that students of medical stream have greater perceptions for learning through ICT as compared to arts stream students.