Efficacy of Digital Self Learning Material (SLM) on Blogging developed for Teacher Educators and Student Teachers

Abstract

Blogging is one of the modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) which is establishing its role as an important pedagogical tool. If Blogging has to be used for the said purpose, one should know the ‘how-to-do-it’. A Digital Self Learning Material (SLM) on Blogging has been developed by the researchers which was shared with the purposely selected Teacher Educators and Student Teachers as an intervention. A Single group Pretest Posttest design was used for this study. Mean, Standard Deviation and t values were computed for the statistical analyses of pretest and posttest scores. Means of posttest scores for Teacher Educators (M= 19.267) as well Student Teachers (M=14.970) were observed to be almost double of the means of pretest scores (M=8.600 for Teacher Educators; M= 8.000 for Student Teachers). Computed t values (-11.674 for Teachers Educators and -11.092 for Student Teachers) were found to be much higher that the critical t values at 95 percent and 99 percent Confidence levels. A significant difference between the means of pretest and posttest scores of the sample proved the efficacy of the Digital SLM developed by the researchers.