Abstract :
ABSTRACT: Technology is the main support for the students learning developments nowadays. With shifting from
the teacher-centred instruction to child-centred instruction, the role, activities, attitudes, reflections of the students
become more important concern to overlook the effectiveness of technology in instruction. Computers are the main
technology support as a tool for effective learning and teaching process. Computer based instruction and computers
programs, tools as itself, provides much facilities and supports to students’ educational life. Computers are update
mechanism for the education and it is not only for education, these developments affect all global, cultural and
economical life standards as well. The computer as productivity tool has great role in education. So, computers have
become a necessary part of our life. We are using computers in every aspect of our life. But, there are many villages in
India which are very much far from computers. How this absence of computer technology affects attitude of students
of rural background? This study strives to find answer of this question. A sample consisting of 50 male and 50 female
undergraduate students of AMU (Aligarh Muslim University) was selected. Their attitude was assessed through
computer attitude scale constructed by T. Khatoon & M. Sharma (2011). After analysis of data, it was found that
rural and urban students, both rural and urban undergraduate students, have favourable attitude towards computer,
but rural girls showed less favourable attitude than urban girls.
Keywords :
Computer , Students learning , Undergraduate students , attitude towards computer , rural and urban students , GENDER , and favourable and less favourable attitudes
