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Educational Technology

Notes Teaching at School as well as Higher Education, mostly, concentrates on giving information which is not
the sole objective of Teaching. Along with giving information, the other objectives are:

• Developing understanding and application of the concepts
• Developing expression power
• Developing reasoning and thinking power
• Development of judgment and decision making ability
• Improving comprehension, speed and vocabulary
• Developing self-concept and value clarifi cation
• Developing proper study habits
• Developing tolerance and ambiguity, risk taking capacity, scientific temper, etc.

With the present infrastructure, class size, availability of teachers, quality of teachers, training of
teachers, etc., it is difficult to achieve all the objectives. Further, most of the teachers use Lecture Method

which does not have potentiality of achieving majority of above mentioned objectives. The objectives
are multi-dimensional in nature, so for their achievement multiple methods should be used in an
integrated fashion. At present ICT may be of some use. It is a well known fact that not a single teacher
is capable of giving up to date and complete information in his own subject. The ICT can fi ll this gap
because it can provide access to different sources of information. It will provide correct information as
comprehensive as possible in different formats with different examples. ICT provides Online interaction
facility. Students and teachers can exchange their ideas and views, and get clarification on any topic

from different experts, practitioners, etc. It helps learners to broaden the information base. ICT provides
variety in the presentation of content which helps learners in concentration, better understanding,
and long retention of information which is not possible otherwise. The learners can get opportunity to
work on any live project with learners and experts from other countries. The super highway and cyber

space also help in qualitative improvement of Teaching – Learning Process. ICT provides flexibility to a
learner which is denied by the traditional process and method. Flexibility is a must for mastery learning
and quality learning.

On Internet many websites are available freely which may be utilized by teachers and
students for understanding different concepts, improving vocabulary, developing
Reasoning & Thinking, etc. ICT can help in preparing students for SAT, GRE, TOEFL, etc.

(a) Use of ICT in Diagnostic Testing

The common observation is that the quality of teaching in the classroom is on the decline. More and more
students are depending on the private tutorial classes. The private tuition also has become a business. It
means tuitions are also being outsourced. This is being done through the use of ICT. There are students
who fail to understand certain concepts or retain certain information. This can be assessed by introducing
the diagnosis in the process of teaching – learning. Computer Based Diagnostic Tests work well and
helped the teachers as well as students in identifying the gray area of each and every student. This can
be put on the website of the school and the student can access it from home also. The student can prepare

the topic/chapter and can take the test to find exactly what he has not understood? The teacher cannot
do this manually. The student progress can be monitored and his performance can be improved. This will
develop confidence in students and may change their attitude towards the subject. Students may start

enjoying learning. Further, the following are the main advantages of Computer Based Diagnostic Test.

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