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PRA CAMP VATTAVADA, IDUKKI
A two-day PRA workshop was organized under the leadership of PG Department of Social Work and Sociology, Gems Arts and Science College, Ramapuram for first year MSW students. The PRA workshop was held at Vattavada, idukki at 01/02/2020. 16 students were participated in the program. The objectives of the workshop were to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of PRA and its importance, usage and application in community-need analysis process, to introduce the different tools used in PRA and to develop skills in conducting PRA exercise with communities. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. On the first day the students were divided into 4 groups namely Lilly, Rose, Jasmine and marigold. The resource person discussed the theoretical aspects of PRA with the group. He explained the definition and principles that form the basis of PRA, the principles i.e. participation, flexibility, teamwork, optimal ignorance and systematic approach. The second part of the discussion on the first day was on the tools of PRA namely social mapping, wealth ranking, transect walk, resource mapping, seasonality analysis, time line and trend analysis, Venn diagram, matrix scoring and skill mapping. Day one of the workshop was used to make the students familiar with the concepts of PRA and its usages. On the Second day the teams were given specific techniques to be implemented in PRA to find out the issues and understand the process of PRA by its application. The students were taken vattavada Village for the practical application. The trainees were given the responsibility to implement seasonality analysis and resource mapping, team lilly was given ven diagram and social mapping to implement, rose had to implement transect walk and Mission mark to implement wealth ranking and matrix ranking. The students after the hands on experience had an evaluation session where each team presented their leanings and challenges. The mistakes and shortcomings in conducting PRA were discussed by the resource person. Overall it was good learning experience for the students.

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ONEDAY WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH AND SPSS
PG Department of Social Work and Sociology organised a one day workshop on Research and SPSS on 21/05/2022(Saturday) 9.30 am in the department. The session handled by Mr. Mr. RATHEESH KUMAR KS(faculty ,CSB institute of learning and development , CSB Bank) SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software program used by researchers in various disciplines for quantitative analysis of complex data. This workshop introduces SPSS environment, basic data preparation and management, descriptive statistics, and common statistical analysis (T-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression). Hands-on-activity with example data is provided to learn these basics. This workshop is a good start for MSW trainees who are new to SPSS and help you harness this useful analysis tool. Although the name of SPSS reflects its original use in the field of social sciences, its use has since expanded into other data markets. SPSS is commonly used in healthcare, marketing and education research. The types of data analysed using SPSS is widely varied. Common sources include survey results, organization customer databases, Google Analytics, scientific research results and server log files. SPSS supports both analysis and modification of many kinds of data and almost all formats of structured data. The software supports spread sheets, plain text files and relational databases such as SQL, SATA and SAS. SPSS provides data analysis for descriptive and bivariate statistics, numeral outcome predictions and predictions for identifying groups. The software also provides data transformation, graphing and direct marketing features. The total number of students participated in this session was sixteen and three faculties also. Although the session was a very informative for the trainees to enhance their knowledge in the field of research.