Usage Of Digital Technology Among Collge Students With Respect To Their Metacognition

Abstract

Education is a process of learning and acquiring knowledge from our country's various experts or resources. Technology-based learning refers to the style of learning that uses technology to help students learn new information. Nowadays, it is very useful in online, offline, and distance education systems all over the world. In the present study, the investigators intended to find out the significant difference of college students in the usage of digital technology based on gender, locality and type of management and also find the relationship between Digital Technology and Metacognition of College Students. We considered Digital Technology to be a dependent variable. For the purpose of investigation, the Normative survey method and the sampling technique used for the study is stratified random sampling. The sample comprised of 1023 College Students in Chennai, Chengalpattu, and Kanchipuram districts. The Digital Technology and Metacognition scale was constructed and validated by the researcher and supervisor. For the meaningful interpretation of the study, the collected data were processed and analyzed using appropriate statistical analysis. The statistical measures employed in processing and analyzing data and to test the hypotheses were measures of central tendency, students t-test, One way Anova, Correlation and Regression.