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Gitasree Goswami ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

Abstract

The present research entitled “importance of information media on Home Science research” was undertaken with the objectives to collect relevant material and develop an information media to assess its effectiveness. As an information media, a documentary was prepared by researcher and was evaluated by villagers, students and staffs. This study was carried out in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The script of a documentary was written in Hindi language so that villagers could be benefited and according to the story board clippings were shoot. Voiceover was done in studio after the shooting process and Cyber Link Power Director software was used during the editing process of documentary. The study was conducted during the year 2016 in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. A close ended evaluation schedule was prepared to evaluate the documentary. Sixty respondents were selected purposively for the evaluation of the documentary. Data was analyzed by using suitable statistical tools like frequency, percentage and one way ANOVA. One way ANOVA was used to find out the effectiveness of the documentary. Ninety per-cents of staffs and students were aware about the parameters of the documentary and less by the villagers (70%). From the tabulated value (3.162), overall results for six parameters were found. The first parameter, title of the documentary found significant result with calculated value 10.92. Likewise for duration and digital effect parameters, results were found non-significant with calculated values 0.64 and 1.19, respectively, which were lower than tabulated value off (3.162). For parameters quality of voice and quality of picture, results were found significant with calculated values 6.45 and 14.35, respectively. The last parameter was subject matter, in which result was found significant with calculated value 3.88.

Keywords

Documentary, Evaluation, Information Media, Mass Media.

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Gitasree Goswami ¹, Sanghamitra Mohapatra ¹, Anita Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Ethelind College of Home Science, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), IN

Abstract

The present research entitled “study on suitability of compact disc on food preservation” was undertaken with the objectives to collect relevant material and develop a CD on food preservation and to assess the effectiveness of the developed CD. The script of the documentary on food preservation was written in Hindi language so that villagers could be benefited like other respondents (staffs and students). According to the story board clippings for the CD were shoot. Voiceover on food preservation was done in studio after the shooting process and Cyber link power director software was used during the editing process of documentary. The study was conducted during the year 2016 in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. A close ended evaluation schedule was prepared to evaluate the developed compact disc. Sixty respondents were selected purposively for the evaluation of the developed compact disc. Data was analyzed by using suitable statistical tools like frequency, percentage and one way ANOVA. One way ANOVA was used to find out the effectiveness of the CD. Ninety per cents of staffs and students were aware about the parameters of the CD and less by the villagers (70%). The CD parameters were divided into six numbers, title of the CD, duration, quality of voice, quality of picture, digital effects and subject matter of the CD. From the tabulated value (3.162), overall results for six parameters were found. The first parameter, title of the CD found significant result with calculated value 10.92. Likewise for duration and digital effect parameters, results were found non-significant with calculated values 0.64 and 1.19, respectively, which were lower than tabulated value of f (3.162). For parameters quality of voice and quality of picture, results were found significant with calculated values 6.45 and 14.35, respectively. The last parameter was subject matter, in which result was found significant with calculated value 3.88. The cost of the compact disc on food preservation is Rs. 135.00 per CD.

Keywords

Compact Disc, Food Preservation, Evaluation.

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Gitasree Goswami ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Faculty of Community Science,Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

Abstract

The present study was aimed to construct, develop and standardize a knowledge scale on organic farming for marginal farmers. After going through several related literature, the researcher outlined a scale and after analyzing, the content framed 57 items related to the course. The prepared 57 items were revised and edited carefully and then given to a total 20 numbers of panel of experts in the field of agriculture namely entomology, horticulture, agronomy, soil science and scientists of RARS Titabor for their valuable suggestions and corrections to ensure its quality. Thus, the content validity of the tool was established. After seeking the opinion of the experts, some of the items were reframed. Finally, 44 items were considered to form initial test battery for developing a standardized knowledge test. These items were subjected to item analysis. After which, a total of 18 items were remained for the final study. The initial test prepared was pre-tested with 30 respondents from two villages. The items were revised and finally administered to 90 marginal farmers selected randomly from six non-sampled villages of Jorhat Development Block selected for the study to collect data for item analysis.

Keywords

Knowledge, Organic farming, Marginal farmer, Scale.

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