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Pages: 127-131
Ajay Singh and Soniya (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

We are living in 21st century. This is the era of Whatsapp, Facebook, twitter, etc. Usually people stay connected with one another through these domains. While using these applications to chat with one another people share their photos, videos etc. They share their views regarding quality and prices of many brands. These activities have a great impact on consumer purchasing decision making. At the same time, while people talk or share photos etc. There are many sites which advertise regarding producer's new arrivals and discounts offer on their products. To some extent it determines the consumer likings towards a brand/product and results in buying that product. The present study is designed to explore the dynamics behind this buying process. People become aware about the fashion trends. A sample of 150 university going students were recruited for the study and they were informed about the study and data was gathered from them. Considering the current scenario social media is affecting the life of people to a very significant level and convincing them to buy a particular product. This needs to be investigated with some empirical evidences. After conducting the research .It was found that social media has a great influence on buying behavior of students. Students share their experiences regarding the use of social media for their purchasing decisions.
Pages: 127-131 Ajay Singh and Soniya (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &…
Pages: 123-126
Shivani (NC College of Education, Israna, Panipat, Haryana)

The present paper aims to discuss the challenges in experiential learning programme in the subject of science at Kanya Gurukul Girls Senior Secondary School, Khanpur Kalan. It's a participatory research and identification of challenges is based on researcher's personal observation and experiences during implementation of sixty days experiential learning intervention programme. The challenges include various factors that obstruct the smooth functioning of science education programme. The paper discusses the problems / challenges in implementation of experience learning and probable solutions to overcome the same. The present paper has its educational implication for policy planners, pre-service teacher education programme in science, teacher training institutions, teacher educators and all stakeholders associated with teaching of science.
Pages: 123-126 Shivani (NC College of Education, Israna, Panipat, Haryana)
Pages: 119-122
Ajay Singh and Soniya (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

The usage of internet is increasing rapidly among School aged children and adolescents. The whole world is connected with each other through digital technologies. Now internet has become important domain to connect the whole world. The user friendly nature of electronic gazettes has created revolution in the area of internet and social networking and it has become a preferred domain to share knowledge. Academicians and corporate world also get knowledge from such mediums regarding their discipline. It is being observed that school aged children and teenagers spent significant amount of time in surfing internet for their entertainment but it may adversely affects their academic performance. Adolescents use internet to connect with others and use social media tools, but frequency of misuse of this method is very high whereas knowledge enhancement with this method is quite low. India is also impacted by this rapid growing technology in the field of internet. Transformation of knowledge has become so easy and swift by the use of internet. In the last couple of years, decreasing cost of internet is also main reason in the wake of increasing trend of internet. Many bad aspects are also emerged with this usage of internet. In conceptualizing the advantages and disadvantages of the internet usage, it is blessing as well as curse for mankind. Therefore, the present paper is an attempt to sensitize the people about the ill-effects of internet usage and its benefits for the society.
Pages: 119-122 Ajay Singh and Soniya (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &…
Pages: 116-118
Raman Kumar and Jagpreet Kaur (Department of Education & Community Service, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of e-Content strategy as compared with conventional strategy of teaching Mathematics to the students of class seventh. The experimental procedure was executed. One experimental and one control group was formed. The e-Content group as experimental group was taught Mathematics with the supplement of e-Content, the control group was taught Mathematics through Conventional method. A sample of 80 pupils from VII grade was taken and to measure the achievement in Mathematics, self developed Mathematics Achievement Test was used as research tool. After the Pre-test, 2 months treatment and post test, descriptive statistics namely mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics namely t-test and analysis of covariance was used. Analyzing the data with the help of correlated t-test, it was concluded that teaching Mathematics through e-Content significantly enhanced Mathematics achievement of students. With the help of one way ANCOVA, it was also concluded that e-Content improve Mathematics achievement significantly higher in comparison to Conventional method when groups were matched on Pre-Mathematics achievement.
Pages: 116-118 Raman Kumar and Jagpreet Kaur (Department of Education & Community Service, Punjabi University, Patiala…
Pages: 112-115
Gaytri Tiwari and Ruchi Galundia (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

The interdependence of school and community culture played a critical role in shaping the youth's occupational choice. For adolescent, their vocational choice is one channel through which their life's goal and purpose might be fulfilled. The career choice that adolescents make is a decision that is influenced not only by their development but also by the context in which they live. School environment is a powerful force and plays pivotal role in the all-round development of the child as children spend many hours in schools. Especially in rural settings, children are not exposed to most of the vocations which are currently available. If children get proper guidance regarding various vocations from school teachers, parents as well as from any other person or family members, they can excel in those vocations as per their capability if they opt for it. This research primarily focused to find out the vocational exposure and vocational interest of rural children in selected states of India. Present study was carried out in order to find out the vocational interest of 1350 academic backward rural school children between the age group of 11-17 years and to provide results based remedial solutions and interventions. Vocational Interest Record (VIR) developed by Kulshrestha (1987) was used to find out the vocational interests of the academically backward rural children. The scale measures vocational interests of the respondents in ten areas, viz., literary, scientific, executive, commercial, constructive, artistic, agriculture, persuasive, social and household. For this purpose, samples were selected from different villages of nine states in India which includes Assam (Jorhat), Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad), Haryana (Hissar), Himachal Pradesh (Palampur), Uttar Pradesh (Pantnagar), Rajasthan (Udaipur), Maharashtra (Parbhani), Punjab (Ludhiana), Uttarakhand (Dharwad). Results revealed that majority of the rural children from selected states of India were not aware of the availability of different vocational choices. Proper interventions, counselling and guidance should be given to these children that will further help them to settle in their career.
Pages: 112-115 Gaytri Tiwari and Ruchi Galundia (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of…
Pages: 108-111
Pooja S. Bhat (Department of Agricultural and Rural Management, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu)
T. N. Venkata Reddy and P. K. Mandanna (Department of Agricultural Marketing, Co-operation and Business Management, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, Karnataka)

India's market is expected to grow, given the changing consumer preferences and the largest youth population. American foods have emerged as the latest preferred choice for people in today's fast-paced, mobile societies who no longer have time to cook and prepare food in the traditional manner, yet who want meals that are nutritious and that tastes good. This study intents to analyze if the consumption of important American food dishes in American Food Restaurants (AFR) is influenced by monthly income, family type, family size and food habit of the consumers. Primary data was collected from McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Domino's, KFC, Papa Johns, Subway and Taco Bell from 90 consumers in Bengaluru city using a structured and pre-tested survey schedule in the year 2015 which was analysed using the Chi-square test. Results pointed out that there is impact of income level and family type while there is no impact of family size and food habit on the important American dishes consumed in AFR's. This study will benefit AFR's and they can therefore evolve technology to maintain the database of consumers and use this for consumer analysis.
Pages: 108-111 Pooja S. Bhat (Department of Agricultural and Rural Management, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore…
Pages: 100-107
Rimsha Lakesh (Department of Home Science, Govt. Dr. W. W. Patankar Girls P.G. College, Durg, Chhattisgarh)
Khan Abraruzzaman Khan (Department of Psychiatry, Govt. Raja Deosharan District Hospital, Jashpur Nagar, Chhattisgarh)

The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the prediction effect of gender and self-concept on career maturity. Following the stratified random sampling technique, 1000 students were drawn from the different institution at Durg district India, to serve as participants in the present research work. The result of the study indicated that gender and self-concept are significant predictors of career maturity. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the prediction effect of gender and self-concept on career maturity.
Pages: 100-107 Rimsha Lakesh (Department of Home Science, Govt. Dr. W. W. Patankar Girls P.G. College…
Pages: 95-99
Ragini Gupta and Manisha Agarwal (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

The present article reviews the concept of work stress among employees with special reference to the banking sector. Stress has been explained by several theoretical perspectives, such as the PE-fit theory, the cybernetic theory and the control theory. Among the job stressors which are responsible for the experience of stress among the bank employees, the effects of demonetisation in India are also discussed. Future research in this direction needs to take into consideration the impact of policy decisions, such as demonetization, on the levels of job stress among Indian bank employees.
Pages: 95-99 Ragini Gupta and Manisha Agarwal (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
Pages: 91-94
Amita Kaistha and Pushpinder Kaur (Department of Distance Education, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

The present study aimed at studying the self-efficacy for learning and performance motivational belief among distance learners in relation to gender, location and discipline of study. Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ, Pintrich et al., 1991) was used as research tool to measure the self-efficacy for learning and performance motivational belief of randomly selected sample of 655 students doing their post-graduation through distance mode. The findings revealed that significant location-wise differences were reported in which rural distance learners showed high level of self-efficacy for learning and performance motivational belief than urban distance learners. The significant main effect of discipline revealed that distance learners pursuing academic discipline have higher levels of self-efficacy for learning and performance in comparison to distance learners pursuing professional discipline, along with this the interaction effect for location and discipline also found significant in terms of male and female distance learners whereas the main effect of gender was not found significant among distance learners for the self-efficacy for learning and performance motivational belief.
Pages: 91-94 Amita Kaistha and Pushpinder Kaur (Department of Distance Education, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)
Pages: 87-90
A. K. Saini (Department of COAN. Sc., CCS, HAU, Hisar, Haryana)

Twenty female buffalo heifers of 12-15 months age were selected from the buffalo herd maintained by Buffalo Research Centre, Department of Livestock Production and Management, College of Animal Sciences, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. The animals were divided into four groups of 5 each on the basis of their nearness to their body weight and age. The experiment was conducted for a period of 120 days ( Ist February to 31st May) to compare the effect of two housing systems and two feeding systems were: T1:Conventional barn+ Hay and concentrate mixture , T2:Conventional barn + Seasonal green fodder and concentrate mixture, T3: Loose housing + Seasonal green fodder and concentrate mixture, T4:Loose housing + Hay and concentrate mixture. There was a significant (p<0.05) difference in evening maximum temperature between two housing systems as the maximum temperature in evening was significantly higher in loose house as compared to conventional barn, which was the main affecting factor for the Thermo-neutral or Comfort zone and ultimately affecting the Microclimate/Micro-environment of the heifers to reflect/express their optimum performance. Morning and evening THI values were non-significant between the two housing systems.
Pages: 87-90 A. K. Saini (Department of COAN. Sc., CCS, HAU, Hisar, Haryana)
Pages: 81-86
Deepak Singh and Hilal Bashir (Department of School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab)

The current research paper attempts to investigate the effects of problem based learning and conventional learning on critical thinking ability of senior secondary schools in economics. The study was experimental in nature and the participants of the study comprised 62 students of class XII selected via purposive sampling technique. The participants were divided into two groups i.e., experimental group and control group (31 students in each group). Self-developed achievement test of economics based on critical thinking ability was administered to collect relevant data. Results of the study exposed that problem based learning contribute significantly on development of critical thinking ability among senior secondary school students in economics. Moreover, significant difference was found between two groups of students exposed to problem based learning and conventional method in developing their critical thinking ability. Thus, problem based learning is better than conventional learning to develop critical thinking ability among the higher secondary school students in economics.
Pages: 81-86 Deepak Singh and Hilal Bashir (Department of School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar…
Pages: 76-80
Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Despite the positive effects of internet, there is growing literature on the negative effects of its excessive use. The use of the Internet on school campuses and in society has increased dramatically in recent years. Whereas the academic use of the Internet is primarily intended for learning and research, the Internet has also become an important part of student life. However, from time to time, cases of over involvement with the Internet have been observed on different campuses. The present study was designed to study the relationship of internet addition with the loneliness and the Academic Performance of the secondary school students. The sample comprised 200 students (100 each from Government & Private) selected randomly from the 4 Government and 4 private schools of Jammu city using the scientific method of selection. Internet Addiction Inventory and Loneliness scale was used to observe the internet addiction and loneliness of the participants. While the scores obtained by the participants in their 10th class board examination of their respective Board were taken as the academic performance of the participants and the result was analyzed using t-test and correlation. The correlation analysis showed the significant and positive correlation of the internet addiction with the loneliness of the participants of both the Govt. and Pvt. Schools, whereas, with the academic performance the correlation is significant, but negative in direction. The result of the t-test analysis showed the significant difference between the Govt. and Pvt. Schools on their internet addiction, loneliness and academic performance and further confirms the results in this regard.
Pages: 76-80 Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)
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