A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on bio-degradable and non-bio-degradable waste disposal management among school student at selected school Puducherry.

Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless,defective and of no use. The objective of the study is to assess the pre-test knowledge on Bio-Degrada bleand Non-Bio-degradable wastedisposalmanagement and to evaluate the structured teaching programmere garding Bio-Degradable and Non-Bio-degradabl ewaste disposal management and also tofind out association between knowledge on Bio-Degradable and Non-Bio-degradable waste disposal management with selected demographic variables. A quantitative research approach used in this study. Apre-experimental research design(one group pre-test post test design) was adopted in this study.Total 100 samples of both ma leand female were selected in Government High School.Thirub huvani,Puducherry.The Period of data collection was six weeks. The purposes and benefits of the study wase xplained to school students. After obtaining oral consent primarily the demographic data was obtained from the sample.Investigator assessed the level of knowledge using the questionnaires. The data was collected and were analyzed in terms of both descriptive and inferential statistics. Finding srevealed that knowledge inpre-test of out of 100school students,10(10%) had inadequate level of knowledge it shows the school students lack in the awareness regarding the bio Degradable and Non-Bio-degradable waste disposal management, 90% ofstudents are having a moderate level of knowledge after giving structured teaching programme out of 100 studentsin level of knowledge, none of them were inadequate knowledge, 85% were moderately adequate knowledge, 15%were in adequate knowledge. The paired test over all value is 31.01for knowledge whichare statistically highly significant at the level of p<0.001. This shows the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on Bio-Degradable and Non-Bio-degradable waste disposal management,knowledge had improved.In conclusion it was evident that on evaluate the effectiveness of Structured teaching programme on Bio-Degradable and Non-Bio-degradable waste disposal management among school students was very effective. The teaching regarding Bio-Degradable and Non-Bio-degradable waste disposal management will improve the knowledge among school students.