International Postgraduate Research Conference (IPRC)
Permanent URI for this communityhttp://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/155
Browse
3 results
Search Results
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.Item Development and Validation of e-Content on “Thermodynamics” to Instruct Engineering Physics to Undergraduates(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Pathiratne, S.The present era is an era of academic globalization. Engineers of today and tomorrow are expected to be far more ingenious and innovative. Now a day with the tremendous developments in technology, possibilities are emerging to provide technical edification in an innovative way to meet ecumenical demands. With the avail of incipient kind of scholastic programmers, we can provide multidimensional and multi-disciplinary edifying experiences to the learners e-Contents are the puissant implement of inculcation. e-Content is the latest method of tutoring, which has magnetized more attention of educationists. Hence there is less possibility of incorporating technology to edify Engineering Subjects. And additionally there is no quality e-Contents were developed for Engineering Physics Subject. Hence the main objectives of this study is to A) To develop an e-Content on ―Thermodynamics‖. B) To validate the developed e-Content. C) To ascertain the efficacy of developed e-Content in edifying ―Thermodynamics‖ to first year Engineering Undergraduates. A pre-test, post-test two group experimental design was adopted. Sample of 60 First Year Engineering Undergraduates were exposed to different treatments such as edifying through e- Content and conventional method of edifying. The study was additionally fixated on ascertaining the consequential distinctions between control and experimental group of First Year Engineering Undergraduates in their academic achievement while learning ―Thermodynamics‖ with reference to gain scores. The achievement scores were analyzed utilizing different statistical techniques. It was found that the experimental group Undergraduates who were edified through e-Content material had better achievement scores than the control group Undergraduates in learning ―Thermodynamics‖. In conclusion, this present study pellucidly denotes that the developed e- content on ―Thermodynamics‖ is more efficacious and as recommendation can verbally express that Chalk and verbalize method of edifying Engineering Physics Subject should be reduced. More incipient instructional technologies utilizing e-Contents shall be introduced in Engineering Faculties.