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Item Entrepreneurship Awareness amongst the University Academics in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka.(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.; Pathirathna, S.An Entrepreneur is a person who takes the jeopardy of starting his own business or enterprise or investing in other startups for the purport of achieving their goal with the desire and the capability to innovate and diversify. It is verbalized that entrepreneurship is the main reason for the economic development a country. The objective of this study was to quantify the knowledge and awareness about the entrepreneurship amongst the University Academics in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka, predicated on the concept of engendering vigilance about it. The survey method was used in this research to gather the data from the Academics. The questionnaire comprised of five segments as each section focuses on the proportions of the entrepreneurship awareness. These questions are based on the knowledge and the awareness and also the abilities of the entrepreneurship. Sample sizes of 100 academics were investigated. The respondent population consisted of 60 males and 40 females. The results denoted that 90% of the male academics and 85% female academics are well aware of Entrepreneurship. There was no significant relationship between gender Entrepreneurship Awareness and Most of the academics are stated that they came to know about this entrepreneurship from the conferences conducted by educational institutions. Seventy-seven academics revealed that they knew a lot about the benefits of the entrepreneurship. Fifty-two are very interested to start the new business, whereas 36 academics who are well educated about the entrepreneurship are not interested in beginning new firm. Males are well aware of the entrepreneurship benefits and they are ready to take the risks compared to the women in Kurunegala District. This research has given the opportunity to ken about the vigilance and cognizance about the entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial erudition is must for the academics so that they can inspirit the entrepreneurship among the students and it may enable to edify them or victual them with cognizance about entrepreneurship.Item Study of Decision-Making Skills of Government and Private School Principals in Gampha District, Sri Lanka.(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Pathirathna, S.; Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.Decision making is selecting the appropriate option from different options. For any human being, decision making is very necessary as this is the main criteria for judging the mental ability of anyone. The principal is the backbone of any school administration. Most of the decisions are given by principal for the development of the school. In the given study, investigators compare the decision-making skills of government and private schools as well as male and female school principals. Objectives of the study are to compare the decisionmaking skills of government and private school principals in Gampaha district on the basis of gender and to compare the decision-making skills of government and private secondary school principals. The sample of the study consisted of 80 participants. The sample consists of 40 government and 40 private school principals. The sample was taken using purposive sampling. For the assessment of decision-making in school principals Decision-Making Style Scale was validated and used. Statistical techniques like Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test was used. Results denote that gender has not affected the decision-making skills of government and private school principals. Also, it is evident that significant difference exists between decisions making skills (i.e. routine, compromise, heuristic) of government school principals and private school principals. All the mean score for the government school principals are higher than the mean score of private school principals. This study despite that government school principal‘s decision making is more accurate than private school principals. On the other hand, there is no significant difference between decision-making skills on the basis of gender. The reason behind the first result may be Government school‘s principals are more independent than private school principals because government principles have to implement the policy. Private school principals have to follow the instruction from the management.Item Effect of Administration, Environment and Academic Qualifications on Motivation of the Sri Lankan Primary School Teacher’s Motivation(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.; Pathiratne, S.Education is the process through which an individual is developed into an individuality and a person into a personality. Each person is different form the other and every individual has same unique potential in some field or other. Education refers to the change in behavior, attitude and culture brought about in the individual as a result of having undergone education during a particular period. In Child’s inculcation primary stage implements of edifying acquisition of the schools of learning cultivation of habits of body and postures of mind compulsory for efficient acquisition of erudition formation of sound judgment and adroit performance of tasks. Edifier plays the most paramount role in primary inculcation. Objectives of the study is to find the effect of administration, location and academic qualifications on Sri Lankan Primary School teacher’s motivation. The sample for the investigation consisted of 160 teachers. The stratified random sampling was applied. The male and female teachers are 77 and 83, the sample consists of 77 males and 83 female teaches from Government (87) and Private (73) schools. Three hypothesizes was formulated for the study and the teacher’s motivation was tested for significance by employing ‘t’ – test. The results denoted that the administration has paramount effect on the motivation of teachers. Additionally, location of school has significant influence on the teacher’s motivation and there is paramount influence of academic qualifications on the teacher’s motivation. In Conclusion researchers can say that Administration highly influenced the teacher’s motivation. Government teachers have positive teacher’s motivation scores than Private sector teachers. The administrators should provide better employment facilities for the Private school teachers. Location of school also highly influenced the teacher’s motivation. Urban school teachers have positive teacher’s motivation scores than the rural school teachers. Therefore the administrators should provide physical facilities for the rural school teachers. Academic qualifications also highly influenced the teacher’s motivation. Undergraduate teachers have positive teacher’s motivation scores than the Post - graduate edifiers. This indicates that the administrators should provide more facilities for the undergraduate teachers.Item Study about Utilization of ICT Teaching – Learning Tools, Among Lecturers of National Colleges of Education in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pathiratne, S.; Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.Science and technology play an important role in the new millennium. Tremendous explosion of knowledge in science and technology has changed the life style of people. Without science and technology we cannot go forward. CT Teaching – Learning Tools, the term will still most likely be utilized to reference out of classroom and in-classroom inculcates experiences via technology, even as advances perpetuate in regard to contrivances and curriculum. Solicitation of ICT environments progressively accommodate as paramount infrastructural features of colleges that enable edifiers to provide students with different representations of erudition and to enhance interaction between edifiers and students and among students themselves. Edifiers are essential players in promoting quality inculcation and no edification reform is liable to prosper without the active participation and ownership of edifiers. Edifiers must be able to incorporate Application of Digital Technology with the traditional learning and competent enough in Web Predicated Teaching. Ergo, Lecturers’ of Teachers Training Collages Should equipped with opportune underrating about the ICT implements. Research in this context has never been carried out in Sri Lanka afore. Main objectives of this study are to determine the Utilization of ICT Teaching – Learning Tools among Lecturers of National Colleges of Edification in Sri Lanka and to compare the utilization of ICT Tools predicated on gender. Withal to determine the Utilization of ICT Tools between English and Singhalese Medium Lecturers and Compare the Utilization based on subject stream (Arts and Science). A Sample consists of 100 Lecturers from Four Sinhala Medium and 200 Lecturers from English Medium National Colleges of Education in Western and North Western provinces of Sri Lanka. Stratified random sampling technique was followed for culling the National Colleges of Education. There are a number of college edifiers in each college. Only Arts and Science edifiers were culled following purposive sampling technique. Findings reveal that the Lecturers of National Colleges of Education in Sri Lanka are more propitious to Utilize ICT Teaching – Learning tools and male Lecturers are more propitious than Female Lecturers. Withal it was found that, there is no paramount distinction between the mean scores of Sinhala Medium and English Medium College Lecturers towards Utilization of Teaching – Learning tools and there is consequential distinction between the mean scores of Arts and Science stream among Lecturers towards Utilization of ICT Tools in Education. In Conclusion this study contributes an incipient teaching learning in the form of assessing the caliber of cognizance and Utilization of ICT Teaching – Learning Tools because the desideratum of the day is to make edifiers realize their capabilities and amend upon capabilities to avail solve the quandaries of their life through Utilization of ICT tools. Special efforts should be made in order to develop Utilization of ICT tools cognizance among the Arts Stream Lecturers and Female Lecturers. This study will be of immense use for the scholastic administrators, which will throw light upon the posture of edifiers of Higher Inculcation towards Utilization of ICT Implements.Item Efficacy of Blogs in Erudition of Computer Programming among Undergraduates(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pathiratne, S.; Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.The use of blogs in an educational setting produces several benefits which include the promotion of critical and analytical mentally conceiving, incremented access and exposure to quality content and an accumulation of solitary and gregarious interactions with peers. Blogs are personal journals written as a reversed chronological hawser of text, images or multimedia, which can be watched in a web page and are made publicly reachable on the web. Blogs typically enclose text in the form of a “blog post”, offer the capability for readers to comment or deliver feedback, comprise archives to past blog posts, and link to other blogs and bloggers (Anil Madaan, 1998). The present study found out the efficacy of educational blog in erudition of Computer Programming among Undergraduates. The study was conducted to develop an educational blog for the methods of teaching Computer Programming and experimentation the same with a set of students studying for the B.Tech. In Multimedia and finding out its efficacy over the orthodox technique of instruction. Two equivalent group experimental-designs are engaged for this research. Researcher has chosen 46 B. Tech in multimedia, students for the study. From the Marks attained of pre-test, 23 students were selected as control group and 23 students were selected as experimental group. According to the findings of t-test the experimental cluster students were better than the control cluster students in their gain scores. Finally, the Researcher concludes that; (a) There was substantial variance between control and experimental group students in their gain scores. That is the experimental cluster students are ameliorated than control cluster students in their gain scores. (b)There was consequential distinction between control and experimental group students in their gain scores for procurement of the cognizance, understanding, and application objectives.Item Study of Mobile Learning Activities amongst Undergraduates(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.; Pathiratne, S.The accommodation of mobile contrivances gives users anytime-anywhere access to information and applications. Sitting on the train, waiting at the playground are occasions that now provide opportunities to access to information or tasks and learn. These ―micro time slots‖ can elongate the opportunities for perpetuated learning and information processing. The time constraints for incipient training in a diligent workplace can be less of a worry, enabling individuals to catch up on learning requisites in diminutive snippets of time. This makes pedagogic sense as well. Mobile use fortifies a form of spaced learning, where the reiterated and temporally spaced exposure to pertinent course content can ameliorate retention and increases competence. Two broad objectives of this study are 1) To ascertain whether there is any consequential difference in the mean scores of mobile learning activities amongst the undergraduates with reverence to their gender, study stream, year of learning, residence of home and locality of the institution. 2) To ascertain where there is any paramount difference in the mean scores of mobile learning activities among the undergraduates with reverence to their Father‘s scholastic qualification. Survey method is employed for this study. The investigator has chosen 230 undergraduates using random sampling technique, who study in a private university. The hypotheses defined was, there is no significant difference in the mean scores of mobile learning activities among the postgraduate students with respect to their gender, course of study, year of studying, residence of home and locality of the institution. and the mean scores of their Father‘s educational qualification Finally, the results reveal that; (a) There is no significant difference in mobile learning activities among the undergraduates with respect to their course in terms (b) There is no significant difference in mobile learning activities among the undergraduates with respect to their Father‘s Educational Qualifications. Etc., This study show that the emergence of incipient technological environment may revolutionize the edification cognition process. The role of the lecturer will be different from the traditional classroom edifying. The lecturer could be a manager, monitor, role model, counselor, facilitator and a gregarious worker. Edifying methodology will shift from edifier-centered inculcation to learner-centered inculcation.