Knowledge and Attitude towards ICT among Minority Students at Higher Secondary Level in West Bengal: An Analysis

Abstract

The current era is called the ‘Era of Information Technology’.Modern people have become dependent on information technology.Its impact is being seen quite clearly in the field of education.Therefore, the research paper was prepared to find out how much students are aware of technology or what their views are on technology.The main objective of this study is to measure knowledge and the attitudes of minority students towards Information Communication Technology.The researcher also wants to compare attitude towards ICT between (a) male and female (b) arts and science (c) urban and rural students at higher secondary minority students.To conduct the study, the researcher adopted some null hypotheses.For this study, Muslim-dominated districts of West Bengal were selected and from there, a few districts were randomly selected. Descriptive and Inferential statistics were used to analyze the data collected from the 100 samples. The study revealed that male students have a better attitude towards ICT than females as well as urban students have better than rural minority students.