scholarly journals Teachers Thinking Styles and Teacher Effectiveness: A Comparative Analysis at Secondary School Level

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Ijaz Muhammad ◽  
Muhammad Shah ◽  
Malik Amer Atta
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Level ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Urban Rural

The prime goal of the study is to explore the 'Teachers Thinking Styles and Teacher Effectiveness: a comparative analysis at secondary school Level'. The study also determines comparison in views of male/female and urban/rural teacher about their thinking styles and teacher effectiveness. The study is descriptive. Two valid and reliable research tools were used, which were structured by the researcher himself. All male/female teachers in the secondary school of southern districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted the population of the study. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted following Krejcie, and Morgan rule and 380 teachers were consulted for the collection of data. For analysis, Mean, SD, t-test and correlation were applied as suitable statistics. Findings of the study show a significant correlation between thinking styles and teacher effectiveness. The study also indicated an insignificant comparison in the views of male/female and urban/rural teachers about their thinking styles and teacher effectiveness.

scholarly journals Impact of Teacher Effectiveness and Student Attitude on Students Academic Achievement in Science Subjects in the Secondary Schools of Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan)

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 241-247
Author(s):  
Zameer Ahmad ◽  
Zafar Saleem ◽  
Khalid Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Level ◽  
Normality Test ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

This study was conducted to find the influence of teachers effectiveness and students attitude on students academic achievement in science subjects at secondary school of district Dera-IsmailKhan. An important aim of the study was to explore the impact of teachers effectiveness and students academic performance on the subject of science. A multi-stage and stratified random sampling technique was used for data collection. The survey questionnaire was used. A standardized questionnaire was used and this questionnaire was also validated. A normality test was applied to normalize all variables. Reliability was checked through Cronbach Alpha and it was found in the range given by (Pallant, 2010). The data-was-collected-from teacher at the secondary school level. The hypothetical influence was tested using simple regression. The teachers effectiveness was found significantly on students academic achievement as β=0.727 p<0.05. Similarly, the influence of students attitude found significantly positive on students academic achievement as β=0.616 p<0.05.

The utility of non-formal education in addressing the school dropout phenomenon : a case study of Asifundeni Secondary School in Makonde District Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-69
Author(s):  
Francis Muchenje ◽  
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Pedzisai Goronga
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
School Level ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Secondary School Level

The study sought to explore students' views on the utility of non-formal education in addressing the school dropout phenomenon at secondary school level. Qualitative research approach was adopted and a case study design was utilised. The population consisted of all the students in the non-formal programme at the school from which a sample of 11 students (2 male and 9 female) was selected through purposive stratified sampling technique. Data were gathered through structured in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Non-formal education was seen to address the school dropout phenomenon by providing school drop outs with an opportunity to continue their education and hence becomes a form of empowerment. A number of challenges such as lack of adequate tuition in some subjects, lack of conducive learning environment as well as negative perception of non-formal education held by pupils in the formal stream and community members were identified. The study recommends that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education should review the staffing situation in schools to ensure the availability of teachers in the various subjects in the non-formal stream. Schools should make an effort to provide appropriate learning facilities for students in the nonformal stream. Furthermore, schools should conscientise their communities on the importance of non-formal education.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: ASSOCIATING THINKING STYLE PROFILES AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-283
Author(s):  
Abdul Qayyum ◽  
Sidra Rizwan ◽  
Nasir Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Level ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Teacher Training Programs

Purpose of the study: The study aimed to find the association between teachers' thinking style profile types (TSPT-I, II, and III) instructional practices (IPs) at the secondary school level in Pakistan. Methodology: The sample of the study was 550 teachers in public sector schools of district Sialkot. Thinking style inventory (TSI-RII) based on a 7-point Likert type scale was used to collect data for the identification of (TS). Frequency distribution and Pearson chi-square were used to analyze the data. Main Findings: The results revealed that the teachers in (TSPT-I) preferred using Concept Accomplishment, Simulations, cooperative Learning, Homework, and Reinforcement, whereas teachers in (TSPT-II)Rich Vocabulary, Lecturing, Daily Assessment, Concept Accomplishment, and teachers in(TSPT-III)Cooperative Learning, Rich Vocabulary, Reinforcement, Simulations, and Daily Assessment as a set of (IPs). Application of the study: This study may help the teacher trainers and school principals to understand the thinking styles of the teachers and their preferences for the certain set of instructional practices to focus the preferences of the teachers according to their thinking style profiles to save time and money. Novelty/Originality of this study: Teacher training programs are conducted on the assumption that all the teachers can be trained uniformly regardless of their preferences for instructional practices. But this study has shown the association between thinking style profiles and set of instructional practices and secondary school level.

scholarly journals Exploring Principal’s Leadership Competencies in Academic and Administrative Areas at Govt. Secondary Schools in the Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-312
Author(s):  
Gauhar Zaman ◽  
Dr. Saqib Shehzad ◽  
Dr. Hafiz M. Irshadullah
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Study Data ◽  
School Level ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
School Heads

The present study has been conducted for the identification of Principals leadership’s competencies in academic and administrative areas at the secondary school level of education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The population of this research study encompasses all 1422 Secondary School Principals. Random sampling technique was applied to select 377 school heads as respondents. To conduct the research study, data was collected through questionnaires, which were further tabulated for analysis through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and analytical tools of mean, standard deviation, and correlation were used. It is found that the majority of the respondents responded that they had properly managed human resources, and performed academic and administrative activities for the promotion of education in the institutions. It is recommended that the level of leadership in administrative and academic areas be improved with modern approaches.

scholarly journals A Study to Examine Teachers’ Classroom Time Management Strategies At Secondary School Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
KIFAYAT KHAN ◽  
DR. TEHSIN TAHIR ◽  
DR. UMBREEN ISHFAQ ◽  
ASAD KHAN
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
School Level ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Classroom Management Strategies ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Classroom Time

Effective classroom management strategies can play an important role in teaching learning process. Classroom management encompasses many factors including management of subject matter, environment, discipline and time. These all are the byproducts of teacher’s effective classroom management strategies. This study was focused to investigate the teacher’s Classroom Time Management Strategies (CTMS) at secondary school level. All secondary school teachers of Khyber Pukhtunkhwah (KP) were considered as the population of the study. A sample of 480 teachers form 80 schools of five (5) districts (96 teachers to each district) was randomly selected. The sample was further distributed into eight (8) strata of male/female, urban/rural, science/arts, and public/private through stratified random sampling techniques such that the number of teachers in each stratum remains 240. The data was collected through a self-prepared questionnaire of reliability 0.87 and was analyzed through statistical tools. The analyzed data reflected that mostly teachers (62.7%) were in practice to utilize time management strategies. Further it was found that: male teachers were superior to female teachers; urban teachers were superior to the rural school teachers; science teachers were superior to the arts teachers; and public school teachers were superior to the private school teachers in classroom time management strategies CTMS; and. Classroom management oriented refresher courses for female teachers may be arranged to abridge gender gap in various CTMS and these strategies should be stressed more frequently in curriculum and pre-service teacher trainings.

scholarly journals The Gender Based Effect of Cyber Bullying on Academic Achievement and Behavior of Students at Higher Secondary Level

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Jamila Begum ◽  
Namra Munir ◽  
Iftikhar Ahmad Baig
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
School Level ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Behavior

The purpose of this research is to discover the effect of cyber bullying on students academic achievement and their behavior. The objective of the research was to find out the academic achievement affected by cyberbullying and behavior of students on gender basis at higher secondary school level. Through random sampling technique, 2160 students and 48 teachers from 6 districts were selected. Questionnaires and interviews were used for data analysis using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results showed that cyber bullying significantly affects students academic achievement than their behavior. No significant effect of cyber bullying was found on students academic achievement and their behavior with respect to their gender. The qualitative data obtained from interviews teachers concludes that students are well aware of cyber bullying and cyber bullying equally affects boys and girls of public sector higher secondary schools.

scholarly journals Impact of A.V Aids on Academic Achievement of Students at Secondary School Level in Southern Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol I (I) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Tanveer Ahmad ◽  
Nasir Ali ◽  
Abdul Basit Khan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
School Level ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Nature Study ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Study Population

AV aids are very important in the learning process. It prepares students for useful learning. There is no doubt that learning materials have great importance in education. Due to this the researcher conducts a study regarding "impact of AV AIDS on the academic achievement of students". A descriptive nature study was conducted. All the 10th class students of Gov secondary schools were the study population. As a sample 500 respondents were selected from 12 Govt. secondary schools, by applying a simple random sampling technique. The researcher delimited the study only to 10th grade of the 12 females and males' schools. To collect the data, a self-made tool was used. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS. John Curry formula was applied. Frequency, percentage, and linear regression were used for analysis. It was revealed that students' academic achievement has a positive relation with AV aids.

scholarly journals Influences of Head Teachers Managerial Skills on Pupils Academic Performance at Secondary School Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1099-1109
Author(s):  
Hina Munir ◽  
Uzma Quraishi ◽  
Inza Shokat
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
School Level ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Human Skills

The aim of this study was to discover the influence of head teachers’ managerial skills  (Effective Communication, Motivation, Study Habit, interest, Human skills, Conceptual  skills, Time Management skills, Leadership skills, Supervision) on students’ Academic  Performance at secondary school level. In this study, quantitative research design was  applied by the researcher. Moreover, purposive sampling technique was used by  distributing the questionnaires among sample of 239 students and 206 teachers of  Government secondary school in Multan District. While analyzing the data Z-test, Pearson  Correlation, and Multiple Linear Regressions were applied in order to explore the  influences of head teacher’s managerial skills upon the students’ academic performance.  The findings of the study indicated that all the factors were highly correlated with each   other and with students’ academic performance. Multiple Regression Model showed that all  the independent variables have positive influence on the dependent variables and all these  factors were statistically significant with respect to the students’ Academic Performance.

scholarly journals Impact of Stress on Students Academic Performance at Secondary School Level at District Vehari

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saqib ◽  
Kaleem Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
School Level ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

The title of the existing topic is “Impact of stress on student’s academic performance at secondary school level”. The important motives of this study are to explore the stress impact on the students’ academic performance. Stress has a key role in student’s academic performance. This study was to focus on the negative impact on the student’s academic performance. The purposes of the study were to investigate; firstly, the type of stress linked with student’s performance; secondly, to evaluate the impact of stress on the academic performances of students; and thirdly, differentiate the impacts of stress on the academic performances of both gender students. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives of the study, the researcher can suggest a reasonable solution for the impact of stress on student’s academic performance. The data collected for this topic, has been gathered from all the secondary schools in District Vehari.  In this study the researcher was taken a sample of (n=10) secondary schools from each Tehsil of District Vehari. The researcher was further divided (n=10) secondary schools into two groups (n=5) males and (n=5) female secondary schools. The researcher was taken (n=15) students from each secondary school selected as sample. The researcher was used simple random sampling technique for data collection. Five points Likert-scale used in this research. 99% respondents are responding about the factor of stress impact on their academic performance. After collecting data, it was analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The tool (questionnaire) used for the collection data was 0.850 Cronbach alpha. In this study, different tests were applied as to factor analysis and regression. Generally, the major findings of study divulged that there are significant impacts of stress on student’s academic performance. This study concluded that major factors of stress among the students are teacher and parents.

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