VALIDATION OF IN-SERVICE TEACHER ORIENTATION PROGRAMME (INSTOP) AS A MODEL FOR IN-SERVICE TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN PAKISTAN
This study was designed to validate the INSTOP model which hadbeen developed by the researcher himself in 2001 on the basis of thedata collected from 240 in-service teacher trainers in Pakistan. Forthis purpose, a questionnaire was developed. This questionnaire wasadministered to the teacher trainers and experts who were engaged inthe formal and non-formal in-service training of primary schoolteachers. The model and the questionnaire were discussed in theseminars held with experts in twelve cities of Pakistan. A finialseminar was held with 22 in-service teacher trainers and experts inRawalpindi city. In this way the model INSTOP (In-service TeacherOrientation Programme) was validated formulating clearly specifiedgeneral and specific objectives. The specific objectives were againclassified as cognitive, psychomotor and affective. The contents hadboth the academic and practical bias. The model INSTOP was alsodesigned on the lines of CIPP (context-input-process-product) and itwas mathematically illustrated in order to show its components.