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Establishing the effectiveness of a training program on Adolescence Education
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The present study attempted to develop and study the effectiveness of a module based training programme on Adolescence Education for Secondary School Teachers and Students. Sample comprised of 10 secondary schoolteachers and 65 students out of which 40 were boys and 25 were girls. The study was designed so as to develop and implement an Adolescence education programme on a selected sample of adolescents and evaluate the changes in the sample as a result of the training programme. Tools of the study were teacher and student questionnaire, observation schedule, HIV/AIDS test, Semi structured interview and effectiveness test. Data was analysed qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Summarizing the entire conduction of the Adolescence Education programme it provided the intended information and proved to bring about changes in the overall students characteristics. The overall information and knowledge about HIV/AIDS and reproductive health issues increased. The mode of Adolescence Education fused with the regular subjects did bring about positive transformations providing thus ample examples for educational institutions to imbibe the Adolescence Education programme