Attitude towards Smart Classroom of the Teachers Teaching Economics Subject in Higher Secondary Schools

Abstract

Educational Technology plays an important role in Teaching and learning process. But the main issue is how effectively the educational technology is employed in the instructional practices of a classroom.  The present study aimed at determining the Economics teachers attitudes towards smart -classroom. The study was carried out using the normative survey method. The study group consists of 200 Economics teachers from higher secondary schools. The attitude towards smart-classroom scale constructed and validated by Prabhu, H., et.al, (2014), was used in this present study. Its validity and reliability was found to be 0.90 and 0.81 respectively. The results of the data analyses revealed that the Economics teachers show favourable attitude towards smart classroom in general.