TECHNOLOGY BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN CHEMISTRY AT SECONDARY LEVEL OF CBSE AND UP BOARD IN INDIA

The fast growing accessibility and capability of emerging technologies have fashioned enormous
possibilities of designing, developing and implementing innovative teaching methods in the classroom. The global
technological scenario has paved the way to new pedagogies in teaching-learning process focusing on technology
based learning environment and its impact on student achievement. The present experimental study was conducted
to determine the effectiveness of technology based learning environment on student achievement in chemistry at
secondary level. A pre-test- post-test equivalent group design was used to compare the achievement of the two
groups. A Pre-test and A post-test containing 50 items each from Chemistry textbook were developed and
administered. The collected data were statistically analysed. The results showed that there was a significant
difference between the mean scores of Experimental group and the Control group. The performance of Experimental
group was better on post-test scores that indicted that teaching through technology based learning environment
enhanced the achievement level of the students. On the basis of the results, it was recommended that teaching and
learning through information and communication technologies may be adopted to enhance the language learning
capability of the students.