A STUDY ON INTERRELATION OF ICT AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN POST PANDEMIC SESSION

Abstract

Today’s world is very much affected by technology. In an era where the digital learning is
playing great role in changing education system rapidly, bringing new realities and challenges
to develop education process through emerging technologies, has important implication.
Recently the pandemic of Covid-19 has affected the educational systems globally, leading to
the almost total closures of schools, colleges and universities. The majority of governments
around the World have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain
the spread of Covid-19. Now a day’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have
become common place entities in all aspects of life. Early research helped us to understand
that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an expression of the will to achieve
and improve in the domain of learning. It can be understood as the student’s will to identify
and set goals for the future. The study attempts to find out the relation among Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), intrinsic motivation and academic achievement. Student academic achievement is dependent variable and independent variables are ICT and intrinsic motivation. It is a survey based study and ‘t’ tests have been used to analysis the data.
It was found that intrinsic motivation, sex; Information and communication technologies (ICT), sex; academic achievement, sex have no significant difference. The study concludes that Information and communication technologies (ICT) and intrinsic motivation improves high level of academic achievement of the students and individuals’ attaining goal.