International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 7

Attitude towards cyber resources and cognitive dissonance of prospective teachers

  • Author:
  • Anjali Puri
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 111 to 117

Govt. College of Education, Chandigarh

Online published on 20 May, 2017.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to investigate the attitude of teachers towards Cyber Resources and their Cognitive Dissonance. The sample of study comprised of 200 prospective teachers, who were selected from Education Colleges of Chandigarh. Attitude towards using Cyber Resource Scale by Dr. S. Rajasekar (2010), and Cognitive Dissonance scale constructed by the researcher were used for the purpose of data collection. Findings of the study were that there was a significant difference in the attitude of prospective teachers towards cyber resources in government and private colleges of education. Significant differences were found in cognitive dissonance of prospective teachers in government and private colleges of education and Attitude towards cyber resources of prospective teachers was found to be significantly related to their cognitive dissonance.

Keywords

Cyber Resources, Cognitive Dissonance, prospective teachers