Research

Student:Md. Rubeena  ID:No. HHM/2009-022   Major advisor: Dr. A. Mary Swarnalatha

The study was undertaken with the assumption that the existing technologies could not reach the rural women due to the failure in recognition of their information needs and also their inability to access available information in the areas of farming, homestead and animal husbandry etc. The information needs of 120 women clientele of two KVKs under the administrative control of ANGRAU in Central Telangana Zone werecollected through PRA tools and needs were analysed using RBQ formula. Based on the identified needs, 30 experts from different fields were selected to identify the suitable technologies.  Results showed that

• Women clientele from the selected four villages had total 28 needs in different areas. The rank order of information needs varies from village to village, hence the TOT calendar was designed for each village separately.
• Based on the opinion of the experts the TOT calendar depicting the activities to be undertaken to satisfy the information needs of women clientele in four villages was prepared in accordance with agricultural season i.e., Kharif, Rabi and lean period.
• Based on revealed results, action plan was prepared for dissemination of technologies to satisfy the information needs of women clientele.
• women clientele has multidisciplinary information needs ranging from knowledge, skill and accessibility for adoption. In spite of many years of agro- based extension programmes, women who actively involved in farm activities for more than ten years are still in need of basic information like seed treatment, seed selection etc.

Student:P. Vishnupriya ID No.HHM/2009-023 Major advisor: Dr. A.MarySwarnalatha

The exploratory research design was adopted for the study with the sample of 120 high school children, 60 from government high school and 60 from private school in which 20 children each from 8^th, 9^th and 10^th classes. Sequential random sampling technique was adopted for the study.Nutrition messages suitable for high school children were identified from nutrition experts with the  help of checklist and were grouped under 3 categories. Three animated modules were developed based on selected nutrition messages. To measure the effectiveness of modules, indicators’ score card was developed. Animated module1 (AM1) titled “Food groups and functions.”,  (AM2) titled “Be well aware of anemia” and (AM3) titled “Bye bye to junk foods”. Significant difference between 3 modules was analyzed with the application of ANOVA.

 Major findings

• Twenty two nutrition messages were selected as relevant messages under food groups and functions
• AM1 indicator presentation contributed to the maximum, AM2 indicator colour had attained high percentage of  indicator score and in AM3 indicators, colour (18.7%), illustration (18.6%) and design (18.3%) ranged almost equally.
• Nutrition messages with mean score of 0.7 and above are selected as relevant messages for high school children.
• AM1 is more effective as it had attained high index value.
• AM1 is significantly different from AM2 and AM3. AM2 is significantly different from AM3.
• Higher increase in knowledge had observed in government school respondents rather than in private schools.

Student : Padma Badavarth     ID No: HHM/2010-019  Major advisor: Dr. Ch. Chaitanya Kumari

Exploratory research design was used for the study. College of Home science and College of Agriculture from Hyderabad campus of ANGRAU were selected following simple random sampling. The sample size was 160 including 60 teachers and 100 students using simple random sampling methods.

• Majority of teachers were middle aged with doctoral degree (83.3%). The teachers frequently used google search engine to seek information. Majority of teachers learnt ICT skills through trial and error method.
• Majority of teachers had an experience of more than 2 years in using MS word (75%), power point slide (68.3%), followed by MS excel (46. 6%).Cent percent perceived ICT more useful.
• The major constraints perceived by the teachers are required software is not available (76.6%), insufficient internet facility at department level (73.3%), slow access of internet (73.3%) and lack of necessary training in use of ICTS.
• Majority of the students were in the age group 19 to 21 yrs and belong to rural background. Very few students possessed personal computers/laptops. A large sections of students (78%) accessed computer from college library. Majority of students learnt ICT skills through guidance from friends followed by course curriculum.
• Students perceived (97%) ICTS are more useful and more informative. Only 34.00% satisfied with ICT facilities provided by the university.
• Majority of students perceived that lack of necessary training in use of ICT (69%), downloading files takes more time and money (61.8%) and equal proportion of students expressed insufficient ICT facility at individual levels.

Student: Manasa Grandhi     ID No.HHM/2010-021          Major advisor: Dr. R. Geetha Reddy
Mee Arogyam Mee Chetullo was one of the programmes which gained lot of popularity and credibility among the audience of Andhra Pradesh with high TRP. The present study is an endeavor to find out the attitude and knowledge of rural women towards the programme. Mutchintal, Kothwalguda, Peddatopra, and Kavvaguda villages were selected by using simple random sampling procedure. 30 women televiewers of Mee Arogyam Me Chetullo were selected in each village at random thus constituting total 120 respondents.

Major Findings

• The data was collected by using personal interview method with the help of a structure interview schedule.
• Statistical procedures like frequency, percentage, range, correlation and multiple linear regression analysis were employed to analyze and interpret the data.
• Results revealed that majority of the respondents were in middle aged group, illiterates, belonged to nuclear family, with low annual income, had medium extension contact, with low mass media exposure and had membership in more than one organization or an office bearer, with medium urban contact, medium nutrition and health orientation and family members, TV and anganwadi teachers are their major sources of nutrition and health information.
• More than half (57.50%) of the respondents had a favourable attitude towards Mee Arogyam Mee Chetullo programme.
• Nearly half (44.16%) of the respondents had high level of knowledge retention followed by medium (30.00%) 3 months after the telecast of the programme.
• Majority of the women perceived time of the telecast was convenient, duration of the programme was sufficient, phone in live was the preferred mode of presentation, and were watching programme daily, with low length of viewing ( below 14 months) and suggested to change the time of the programme either to evening or afternoon.
• Social participation, nutrition and health orientation, frequency of viewing and length of viewing had positive and significant relationship with the attitude at 1% level of significance where as education and annual income, had positive and significant relationship at 5% level of significance with the attitude of the respondents towards the programme.

Student : Anjali Negi ID No: HHM/2010-020      Major advisor:          Dr. P. AmalaKumari

The study was undertaken to develop an index of professionalism in home science education by identifying the perceptions of teachers who taught courses to the students, on the identification of professionalism and achievements of these perceptions by students.

Exploratory research design was undertaken and faculty of home science and students of 3^rd year and 4^th year were selected purposively for the study. Inventory and questionnaire methods were used for data collection.

Major Findings

• Majority of the students in the study were in 20-22 age group, belonging to nuclear families with second ordinal position.
• Majority of students were from telugu and English medium with percentage of marks in 10^th 12th standards varying between fair (55 – 65%) to very good (75 – 85%) category.
• Students had high level of creativity, self-confidence, and academic achievements. Technical competencies were found to be highest in 4^th year students.
• The teachers perceived professionalism in their disciplines through various courses. The disciplines FDNT and HDFS were close to and higher when compared to other departments of RMCS, TXAD and HECM were little closer with a minute difference.
• Creative skills were perceived to maximum in FDNT and HDFS, while evaluation skills in FDNT and TXAD.
• A positive correlation was indicated by 4^th year students between achievement motivation and applying analysis skills. Academic achievements were positively correlated with evaluation skills.
• Co-curricular achievements and hobbies were found positively correlated with creative and analysis skills. While in case of 3^rd year students, achievement motivation was found to be positively correlated with understanding skills.

Student:V. Sindhu Rani, ID No.HHM/2011-015   Major advisor: Dr. P. AmalaKumari

Reproductive health is an indispensable ingredient of health, especially during adolescence and a major determinant of human development. In the age group of 10-24 years, the health needs of adolescents have neither been researched nor addressed adequately. The experimental research design was selected for the study with a sample of 120 school children, 30 from each Tribal Ashram school. Adilabad district was selected purposively because tribes are densely populated compared to other districts of the state. Content was developed in telugu on identified ARH issues and subjected to content analysis. Edutainment material in print and electronic form were developed, incorporating ARH content. Adolescence, physical changes, psychological changes, menstrual health, social sensitivity in adolescent girls, nutritional care, HIV/AIDS, games and exercises are the topics. The level of ARH communication was measured before and after imparting of knowledge on ARH issues in all the four schools and computed for their significance of increase.

Major findings

• Majority of the respondents were in the age of 13-14 years. Media exposure, one of the profile characteristics of the respondents revealed more for TV and books. Respondents assigned máximum to happiness(2.99), followedbymotivation (2.95), Advocacy (90), Intuitiveness (2.86), Fun (2.85), Attentive (2.83), Focus (2.81).
• Pretest mean values were found different in four schools, after imparting knowledge on ARH issues to the adolescent girls and mean scores were almost equal at post and concurrent test.
• A significant difference in all schools was observed after imparting knowledge on ARH issues to the adolescent girls, proving the effectiveness of edutainment material. Also significant difference in all schools was observed at pre and concurrent level.
• The returns on investment for ARH communication with regard to information was 18.93%, which means for every unit of investment, the increase was almost 19 times. It was 21.92% for influence, which means for every unit of investment, the increase was almost 22 times.

In the present study ROI is a proof, to statebehavior change communication through edutainment material is profitable.ARH communication is essential for all adolescent girls. It should be effective to sustain the communication.

Student:K. Keerthi ID No.HHM/2012-016 Major advisor:Dr. T. Sarah Kamala

Wage employment is monetary compensation paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work done. The Government of India created a historic act, by enacting the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the largest employment generating programme in the world, ensuring the right to work in a country with a population of over one billion.Ex-post-facto research design was selected for the study with sample of 120 respondents 60 from each village were selected randomly.

Major findings

• Majority of the respondents were adults (65%), followed by middle aged (48.3).They belong to backward caste, followed by forward  and scheduled castes.
• MGNREGA beneficiaries comprise of all categories of farmers, but mostly small, followed by medium.
• With regard to family income, majority of them were belonging to medium income group (3% & 50%), followed by low (33.3% & 30.0% ) in two villages respectively.
• The respondents had four major liabilities, viz., loans from nationalized banks, cooperative banks, SHG and also from local money lenders, which means that both institutional and non-institutional lending had increased after participation in MGNREGA. Liabilities, in general has enhanced after participation.
• The earnings were diverted for procurement of materials is evident from the data. House, buffalos, Electrical and electronic goods and transport vehicles were purchased. Some amount was spent on payment of educational fee.
• Community works were taken up and the sustainability of assets was created under MGNREGA programme. Accessing information was achieved to the maximum, followed by leadership, communication and decision making.
• Though work participation ranged between 73-100 wage employment days of total employment days of 300-350 days, the wage per day on piece rate was Rs. 60/-. Hence it could not influence the dependent variable to a significant extent. Policy and institutional factors had negative weak relationship with all the three dependent variables, as half of the policy and institutional factors were not observed properly.

Student:Manjula mummulla   ID No.HHM/2012-017 Major Advisor:Dr.R. Geetha Reddy
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA 2005) which is a rights-based flagship scheme of the Government of India with effect from 2^nd February, 2006, guarantees at least 100 days of wage employment in a given financial Year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. MGNREGA is an interesting subject to study because it is not only giving employment to the rural poor, but alsocreating sustainable and durable assets in the village. The Act gives power to the daily wage labors to fight for their right to receive the wages that they must receive and not just a means of providing social security to its people but also an opportunity to promoting over all community development and alter the balance of power in rural society.Ex-post-facto research design was choosen for the study. The study was conducted in Aurepalle and Dokurthe two ICRISAT adopted villages in Mahabubnagar District of Telangana State were purposively selected where the said programmewas launched in 2009 under the research scheme entitled Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA).The sample selected was 120 of MGNREGA beneficiaries byusing stratified random sampling.

Major Findings

• Majority of the respondents were in middle aged group, illiterates, backward (BC) caste group, belonged to nuclear family, having small size families with medium annual income and half of the respondents were small farmers.
• As majority of the respondents were agriculturists, the general working days could be attributed to farming activities, which ranged between 55-58 per cent.
• The contribution of MGNREGA work period was only75-78 days in a year. Out of this 22-26% was MGNREGA while remaining general. Somewhat less days are fulfilling but they were following norms of
• Policy and institutional factors had a positive relationship with all three dependent variables but these were not that much influencing the dependent variables. On the whole linear relationship was observed.

Student:SunitaSijwali IDNo.HHM/2013-018Major advisor: Dr. A.MarySwarnalatha
In the present study effective strategies for web portal promotion and suitable strategies for www.vigyanasaadhitha.com were identified, implemented and observed for a period of six months from December 2014 to May 2015 and measured against their indicators. The checklist was prepared and given to experts for judgment to find out effective strategies for any kind of web portal promotion, strategies which received mean and above mean score were identified as effective web portal promotional strategies.

Major findings

• Out of 15, top 10 strategies which got more than 50% voting of experts were identified as suitable promotional strategies. All the promotional strategies were designed and developed in telugu language. Data were collected through Google analytics, control panel and Facebook insights against their indicators web content categories.
• Web traffic’s indicators included traffic sources, traffic quality and traffic volume. SMSM generated more traffic (25.60%), followed by SEO (20.40%), EM (20.11%) LE (18.3%), Facebook (8.3%) and WOMM & VC (5.01%).
• Percent increase was computed for the indicators of traffic quality before and after promotion and it was found that the bounce rate decreased by 17.7% during the promotional period. In case of other indicators average visit duration, average time on page, pages/visit, conversion rate and returning visitors, the percent increase was significantly high.
• Percent increase for indicators of traffic volume found significantly high in terms of total visitors, unique visitors, users, page views and traffic/day, except for contributors. The peak hours of visiting changed from 11.00 am to 01.pm to 09.00am to 11.00 pm.
• The growth of visitors was rapid initially, had a fall in the month of March 2015, and picked up in an increasing order in subsequent months. Users’ growth line also increased. Growth was more or less gradual and users’ highest growth rate was in April 2015. The quantity of contributors among the web traffic was low and growth line was also in decreasing order.
• Average review score, which was the sum of comments, clicks and ratings for content was high for health category (38.8%) followed by child development (33.6%) and nutrition (32.7%). Maximum comments were under appreciation category (42.85%) followed by query (35.71%) and suggestions (21.42%). Health category was ranked number one (I), followed by child development (II) and Nutrition (III).
• The ROI for all promotional strategies was computed together in terms of number of users who stayed in the web portal for a period of 30 seconds to 1 hour. ROI on promotional strategies with regard to users’ traffic to the web portal was 545.06 %, which means for every unit of investment the increase in traffic was almost 7.5 folds.

Student:B. A. Lalitha, IDNo.HHM/2013-019, Major advisor: Dr. M.S. Chaitanya Kumari

Results revealed that majority (46.6%) of the tribal women were middle aged followed by young age (35%). 48.3% of the selected tribal women were illiterates, followed by high school education (23.3%) and primary schooling (18.3%). More than half (51.6%) of the selected tribal women were belonged to medium size family followed by small size family (43.3%). About 66.6 per cent of the tribal women had pucca houses and agriculture was the main occupation of majority (71.6%) of the tribal women
The primary water source was hand pump for drinking and household purposes, while pond and tap were secondary water sources which were available within a distance of a kilometer. Forty six and seven percent of the tribal women expressed that they fetched water more than 5 times a day for drinking and household use from water source, whereas in the case of Anganwadi workers, more than half of them fetched water less than 3 times a day. For fetching water a great majority of the tribal women and Anganwadi workers waited for less than 15 minutes at the community water source. Seventy per cent of the tribal women were responsible for fetching water (70%) in the household and in very negligible (1.7%) percent households it was the responsibility of men. 43.3% of the Anganwadi workers stated that women were mainly responsible for water fetching but only 10% of the Anganwadi workers households it was the responsibility of men.
For development of the multimedia module, content was collected and identified the issues and given to the selected experts along with checklist for selection of key issues. Content for identified tribal domestic water sanitation management was translated into a vernacular language i.e. Telugu, Outlines, flow charts and story boards were prepared for the development of the multimedia module. Using a page based authoring tool i.e., Powerpoint multimedia module was developed. Beta testing was done for quality assurance by the experts.
The content analysis indicator “Practical utility” (22%) had high percentage of contribution towards content effectiveness followed by informative (21.7%) and adequacy (21.0%). Module analysis revealed that the major indicator ‘use of illustrations’ contribute 22.6 percentage towards module effectiveness among the other indicators of the module followed by animation (20.8%), audio and video (20.4%.
The obtained Z-test values revealed that there is a significant difference between the perception of the tribal women and Anganwadi workers. Paired t-test values showed that there is a significant difference between the mean score values of pre and post tests of the respondents, and t-values were highly significant at 1% level

Student:M. Sujatha ID No.HHM/2014-017 Major advisor: Dr. A. Mary Swarnalatha
Neil Fleming (2006) introduced VARK model of adult learning which is an acronym that refers to the four types of learning styles: Visual, Auditory, Reading and Kinaesthetic.With the hypothesis that multimedia based ICT modules will support all learning styles by providing high-quality learning experience to adult learners, the study was planned and carried out with 150adult learners, randomly selected from five adopted villages of KVK, Malyala, Warangal district of Telangana state. An exploratory research design was adopted to conduct the study.The five selected topics for ICT modules on environmental education were Global warming (11.20 minutes), Home farming (10.28 minutes), Carriers of communicable diseases (9.31minutes), Medicinal plants at home level (15.18 minutes) and Clean village (11.18minutes). The content was presented in text and audio formats incorporating relevant images, videos and animations. The salient findings were:

• Majority of the respondents belong to unimodal learning style (86.67%). Among uni modal adult learners, auditory learners (73.84%) were more.
• The ICT module with the highest mean score is Medicinal plants at home (19.46), followed by Clean village (19.43), Global warming (17.86), Carriers of communicable diseases (17.86) and  Home farming (17.83).
• The extent of learning among unimodal learning style respondents had highest mean score (18.80), followed by  visual (18.67), bimodal (18.45), reading (18.31), multi modal (18.10), audio (18.03) and kinaesthetic (17.92).  Hence, it could be inferred that the ICT modules supported all the learning styles and resulted in learning.
• Irrespective of learning styles, knowledge was acquired equally among all adult learners.
• A significant positive relationship existed between Knowledge acquisition and ICT compatibility of learning styles at 0.5% level of probability. when the ICT module compatibility enhanced, the learning also increased.

Student:N. Sunitha  ID No.HHM/2014-018  Major advisor: Dr. P. AmalaKumari,
Learners develop a preference for learning based on childhood learning patterns and the most popular learning style is VARK-Visual, Aural, Read and Kinesthetic, an instructional preferences model. It is rather a multimedia style from ICT point of view. Though there is no universal definition for ICT module, it broadly covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. With the above assumption, selecting the clientele of KVK as adult learners, the present study was carried out in five adopted villages of KVK, Rudrur, Nizambad District. The ICT modules refer to multimedia video lessons consisting of content in Telugu related to leafy vegetables, millets, anemia, diabetes and thyroidism in text and aural form, supported with relevant images, videos and animations.

Major findings

• The adult learners composed of 58.66% of male and 42.33% of female and 3/4^th of them were in the category of young adult learners.
• With regard to ICT devices usage, highest use of Television (88.66%) as ICT device, followed by mobile (78%) was evident from the data.
• Among multi ICT users, YAL were very high than MAL and OAL. With the level of formal education, multi users were increasing.
• In the context of occupation, those who were engaged in two occupations were using multi devices.
• Unimodal learning style was high (70%), followed by bimodal (27%) and equal proportion of tri and multi modal (3%).
• Among uni, auditory learners (26.67%) were more, followed by visual (18.00%), kinesthetic (16.00%) and read (9.33%).
• Among bimodal learning style, auditory learning style was mostly preferred, in combination with other styles.
• ICT modules could engage the learner in learning. Highest overall mean score was attained for the lesson anemia (19.61), followed by leafy vegetables (19.46), millets (19.43), diabetes (19.36) and thyroidism (19.31).
• A significant positive relationship existed between learning and VARK compatibility of ICT module at 0.5% level of probability.
• Irrespective of learning styles, learning through ICT modules occurred equally as the module has VARK learning compatibility.

Student: Pretty Rani, ID No: HHM/2014-019  – Major advisor:Dr. R.Neela Rani

Information forms a major part of diabetes management. People with diabetes who have adequate information are presumed to be in a better position to take responsibility for their own health and thus morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes can be reduced.In view of the above problem the research was proposed to identify and analyze the information need of diabetics and to provide advocacy through text and voice SMS.

A total of 90 diabetic respondents comprising 60 experimental and 30 control groups of Hyderabad district were randomly selected. An interview schedule was developed to elicit personal and psychological information of the respondent along with questionnaire to identify and analyze the information needs of diabetics in areas of clinical, nutrition and management keeping in accordance with the KSA domain. SMS were developed for the identified information needs of diabetic respondents in both voice and text format. After execution of SMS, perceptions of the respondents were collected towards the disseminated SMS in both experimental and control group.

Major Findings

• Majority (22%) of the diabetic respondents were female compared to male. Highest percentage of respondents (66.66%) were middle aged, and majority of respondents had graduation and above.
• The respondents wereunder sedentary category. Almost 92% of respondents had a habit of taking junk foods, while 80.00% regularly consumed desserts and confectionaries.
• Diabetes was linked with genetic inheritance among 83% of the respondents. Polyuria was predictive symptom to identify their diabetes. Majority of respondents (88.89%) were undergoing only fasting and non-fasting glucose tests.
• They had information seeking behavior and had exposure to all sort of media sources, TV beingthe highest (93.33%).
• The mean score for nutrition information need was higher in both experimental and control groups and low for management information needs.
• A total 60 text and 30 voice messages were developed. The text message provides the narration addressing knowledge and skill based needs and voice message had an appeal or direction for action to stimulate attitudinal change. The developed messages addressed behavior domain KAS of the identified needs.
• A total of 3840 text messages and1920 voice messages were sent to the experimental group respondents for 30 days and deliveryrate was 98.69% and 97.66% respectively.
• The perception of control on diabetes was 75.00 % and 48.11% in case of experimental and control group respectively. A significant difference between experimental and control was found when computed t values.
• A significant difference between text and voice message service was also found, concluding text messages were more effective in changing the perception of experimental group.

Student: B. Spandana, ID No: HHM/2015-08 – Major advisor: Dr. P. Amala Kumari

Science is a sum of knowledge of natural systems as well as a process of establishing, extending, refining and revising of that knowledge for application in day to day life.  Hence, in learning science one should understand it as knowledge and process. The eventual goal of science education is to produce individuals capable of understanding and evaluating information which is scientific in nature. This enhances the ability of making decisions appropriately incorporating information, there by produce scientists, engineers, and other science-based professionals with sufficient as well as diversified skills.

Science education in schools
It is often said that children are natural scientists. Children bring to science class a natural curiosity and a set of ideas and conceptual frameworks that incorporate their experiences of the natural world and other information that they have learned. Since these experiences vary, children at a given age have a wide range in their skills, knowledge, and conceptual development. A teacher therefore needs to be able to evaluate each child’s knowledge and conceptual and skill development. Furthermore, the child’s level of meta cognition about his or her own knowledge, skills, and concepts should also be valued in order to provide a learning environment that moves each child’s development.

Motivation for science learning
It is widely accepted that student motivation is a key element within the learning process. More so, science learning calls for active participation of students in the class. The student has to be provided with both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is the stimuli within the individual, while extrinsic is from outside the world. A student who is intrinsically motivated undertakes an activity for its own sake, for the enjoyment it provides, the learning it permits, or the feelings of accomplishment it evokes. An extrinsically motivated student performs in order to obtain some reward or avoid some punishment external to the activity itself, such as grades, stickers, or teacher approval. Both the outcomes are essential for successful school education

The present study on “Student Motivation Towards Science Learning” in Ashram Schools of Warangal District- An Intervention with Videos and Quizzes is planned and carried out to initially measure the motivation levels of 8^th standard student’s of Ashram schools located in Warangal district, for learning science and to find out the possibility of enhancing them by means of teaching Physical science and Biology through video lessons and quizzes. Based on the syllabus recommended by NCERT for Physical science and Biology, the researcher developed video lessons and quizzes in vernacular language, i.e., Telugu and carried out the intervention, duly following the empirical guidelines.

Major findings of the Study
An experimental research study on Students’ Motivation Towards Science Learning (SMTSL) in Ashram High Schools of Warangal District- An Intervention with Video and Quizzes revealed that screening of videos on Science subjects was of great help to students and the quiz scores revealed that an overall increase of 14.1% of motivation among students thereby increase in post test scores especially in Biology subject.

Ten video lessons in Telugu developed in Physical Science and Biology with an average duration of 11 minutes was screened to 219 students of eighth standard and the impact was evaluated with six quizzes.

The difference between pre and post quiz scores was significant at 0.05 level of probability in both the subjects.

Student: Prashanthi, ID No: HHM/2016-08 – Major advisor: Ms. S. L Kameswari
Academic goal orientation is a predominant factor in educational psychology. These goals reveal students underlying reasons to put effort into academic. Over the past two decades many investigated students’ motivation and finding ways to predict and improve academic performance. This study was an attempt to extend audio and video streaming in technology rich motivational environment by focusing on academic goal orientation of undergraduate students. An action research design was undertaken and all the undergraduate students of College of Home Science were purposively selected by keeping in view the existence of campus audio and video streaming in the college. The data was collected using 5 point Likert scale Academic Goal Orientation developed by (Was, C. 2006) to measure the four types of Academic Goal Orientations i.e., Mastery orientation, Performance Avoidant Orientation, Performance Approach Orientation and Work Avoidant Orientation. Pre test, post test-1 and post test 2 were conducted to measure at what extent goal orientation was supported through audio and video streaming.

Major Findings:

• Results revealed that majority of the respondents were in the age group between 17-19 years and majority of the respondents in medium level of creativity and Interest.
• The post test 2 results revealed that there was increase in mastery orientation (76.5%), Performance approach orientation (59.3%) and showed gradual decrease from high to low in both performance avoidant orientation (45.7%) and work avoidant orientation (49.4%).
• The increase was seen in academic goal orientation of undergraduate students when subjected to audio and video streaming.
• There was significant difference between pre test and post test 2 with respective to results of academic goal orientation in undergraduate students at 5% level of probability.
• Age, and father’s education had significant relationship on academic goal orientation at 1% level of probability
• Interest had significant relationship on academic goal orientation at 5% level of probability.

Student: Anubhuti Pandey, ID No: HHM/2016-09, Major advisor: Dr. R. Neela Rani
Digital nutrition dictionary is a portable electronic device that serves as the digital form of any kind of dictionary. It is available in a number of forms i.e. dedicated handheld device, apps on mobile devices, CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs and online products that provides the information regarding the nutrition aspects and its importance in our daily life. In view of providing the nutrition information to the hearing impaired children, this research study was proposed for the development of digital nutrition dictionary in Indian sign language.

Two educational institutions offering services to hearing impaired children were purposively selected viz., John Peter Memorial Degree College for the Deaf and John Peter Memorial school for the Deaf, both located in Gandhi Nagar, R.K. Puram, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad, Telangana. While Indian sign language teachers were selected from both the educational institutes whereas HI children were selected from latter one.

Fifteen nutrition experts from department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Home Science, PJTSAU, Hyderabad, were randomly selected for identifying the foods to be included in digital nutrition dictionary for hearing impaired children and for finalizing the content to be included in digital nutrition dictionary.

Thirty Indian sign language teachers were selected for content analysis, development and validation of digital nutrition dictionary in ISL for hearing impaired children and also 15 hearing impaired children were randomly selected from the two educational institutes in Hyderabad for content validity and dictionary validity.

Major findings
In case of nutrition experts, 40% of them were under the category of above 40 years of age followed by 20-30 years (33%) and 31-40 years (27%), the majority of the nutrition experts had Ph.D. qualification (73%), followed by M.Sc. (27%), nearly half of the nutrition experts (47%) were Assistant professors followed by Research scholars (33%) and Professors (20%).

In case of Indian sign language teachers, more than half (53%) of Indian sign language teachers constituted the female population whereas (47%) of them were male, (40%) of them were under the category of 25-30 years of age followed by 36-40 years old (33%) and 31-35 years (27%), the Indian sign language teachers had M.Sc. whereas none of them had done Ph.D.

In case of HI children, majority of the HI children were male (60 %) when compared to female (40%), more than half of the hearing impaired children (53%) which belonged under the category of 10-11 years of age followed by almost an equal sample belonged to 8-9 years old (27%) and 6-7 years (20%), majority of hearing impaired children were in 5^th class (33%), followed by class 4^th (27%). An equal sample (20%) belonged to class 1^st and 3^rd and none of them were from class 2^nd. Regarding their diet, category majority of the respondents were non vegetarian (60%), followed by vegetarian (40%).

There was significance difference between population mean and standard value. Respondents were highly agreed with the indicators used for validation which proved that the dictionary content was significant for developed dictionary.

The content validity and dictionary validity was calculated using Pearson’s correlation test and all the indicators i.e. word, theme, item, character and space-time were found to be valid as correlation was found to be significant for the content validity of DND at 0.05 and 0.01 significance level. The validity range for content validity was 0.565-0.807.

The indicators authority, coverage, accuracy, objectivity and application were found to be valid as correlation was found to be significant for dictionary validity at 0.05 and 0.01 significance level. The validity range of dictionary validity was 0.518-0.860. Hence it can be concluded that the developed digital nutrition dictionary was relevant for the purpose selected.