Development and validation of multimedia package on organ donation for student teachers at B. ED level

Abstract

Multimedia package is one of the technologies based selfinstruction material comprises of text, audio, video, animations, pictures etc. that enhances the learning activity among the learners. One of the salient features of multimedia package is human interactivity. The emergence of multimedia package is to reduce the face-to-face interaction between the student and the teacher and to make student learning more effective. The present study was designed to develop and validate a multimedia package on organ donation for student teachers at B. Ed level. This study comprises of both survey method and experimental method. The investigator has adopted survey method to find out the attitude, awareness and knowledge on organ donation and also to find out the attitude towards multimedia package among the student teachers with the help of two constructed tools namely RK ORGDON scale and KRMMP scale respectively, their reliability and validity was also established. For this 1200 B. Ed students were taken as the sample from the B. Ed colleges in Dindigul. In the experimental study is a single group design, wherein a multimedia package was developed and its effectiveness was found among student teachers. For this 100 B. Ed students were taken as the sample. Findings of the survey revealed that present student teachers have a low level of attitude, awareness and knowledge on organ donation and low level of attitude towards multimedia package. Findings of the experimental study shows that the developed multimedia package has raised the attitude, awareness and knowledge on organ donation among student teachers which shows that the developed multimedia package on organ donation is highly effective and can be used as an educational tool to generate awareness and create positive attitude and increase the knowledge on organ donation among the student teachers.