A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Competency Based Teaching on Knowledge regarding effects of Social Media Addiction on Health and Academic Performance among School Children of Selected School of Hubballi

Abstract

The youth of today is the future of tomorrow. Besides education for citizenship, one needs to develop all the potentialities including physical, mental, social and spiritual and must prepare himself for not a single citizenship, but as four allied and inter-dependent types of citizenships of family, schools, country and world. The condition at home is changing the pattern of family and parents are anxious about the welfare of their children.1 They are encouraged on all sides by magazines, newspapers, radio and television to develop their child into a strong, healthy, stable minded adult but children are using technology and the internet for a large part of the day, from the internet and social media, to phones, apps, games, and other types of technology.An evaluative study was conducted among 50 school children’s of selected schools of Hubballi-Dharwad. Probability; Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample and data was collected by structured knowledge questionnaire. The research design used for the study was pre-experimental: one group pre-test post-test design. Data analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Overall result of the study revealed that Most of the subjects in the pre-test 31(62%) had average knowledge, 09(18%) had good knowledge and 10(20%) had poor knowledge. Whereas, in post-test after CBT, 40 (80%) had good knowledge and 10 (20%) had average knowledge. The study concluded thatcompetency based teaching was effective in improving knowledge regarding effects of social media addiction on health and academic performance among school children.