Aroona Hashmi

The present study was aimed to investigate teachers' perceptions about problems and prospects of the Diploma of Associate Engineers (DAE) program in Punjab. All the teachers (Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) teaching to DAE students in District Punjab were the population of the study. Fifteen teachers from 8 colleges of technologies were selected randomly; therefore, 120 teachers were selected as a sample of the study. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The reliability of the instrument was 0.91. Findings revealed that teachers were more focused on the curriculum developed by TEVTA authorities, physical infrastructure and teachers' methods of teaching. Moreover, teachers, according to their experience, have differences of opinions regarding administrative facilities and assessment system in TEVTA institutions. Teachers, on the basis of their experience, have differences of opinions regarding administrative facilities and a proper monitorin...

Current study is planned to find the relation of structural empowerment, psychological empowerment and life satisfaction. Nurses of public hospitals are considered as target population. 255 nurses were randomly selected for conducting this research. Results describes that structural empowerment has positive significant influence on life satisfaction and psychological empowerment. Furthermore, psychological empowerment partially mediates the relation of structural empowerment with life satisfaction. In future this kind of researches will also conducted on the nurses of private hospital and compare the results. In future, nurses of some other cities of Pakistan like Bahawalpur, Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, and Karachi may also include. It is also valuable to include more variables along with these variables.

AbstractParental involvement is what parents do to improve their children's educational activities at home and emphasize the communication with teachers about their children's school success. The purpose of the research was to investigate the extent of parental involvement and its impact on their achievement at elementary level. The sample consisted of 600 parents of 600 class 8th children enrolled in public and private school systems in District Lahore. A survey was conducted by PIP Questionnaire(Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler, 2005). F or achievement score PEC's results of class 8th were collected .The analysis was done by applying t- test and regression. The result of the study indicated the high involvement of parents in their children 's education irrespective of school type but achievement scores of private school children were high. It is concluded that parental involvement with their children's schooling does impact positively on their academic achievement.Keywords: Parental Involvement, Achievement, Public School, Private School, PECIntroductionParental Involvement traditionally gained much consideration in education. In this contemporary era, as several school-improvement plans have pursued to increase student learning. As child moves from infant to toddler and then to pre-schooler, he/she leams to be able to read, write, listen and speak (Oludipe, 2009). The influence of Parental Involvement (PI) in a child's growth and development is generally accepted.According to No Child Left behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2001 ), "the participation of parents in regular, two- ways and meaningful communication involving academic learning and other school activities is called parental involvement", endorsing:"(i) a vital and fundamental role in facilitating the children learning is played by their parents.(ii) Motivation should be there to involve parents actively in the schooling of children.(iii) The parents equally share responsibility in their child's education and are included, as rightly, in decision making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child".Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler (1995) stated that Parental Involvement consisted of two types of activities, home-based activities and school-based activities. Their model (2005) clearly pointed out that parents consider themselves in a difficult condition, when they recognized that schooling of their children is dependent upon the information, capabilities, and realization of security that they can be successful in school.In Bouffard and Weiss (2008) views, Parental Involvement can be defined as direct effort provided by the parent, in order to surge educational outcomes of their children. This definition indirectly mentions an education production function, and makes parental involvement one of its points of view. The broad perspective embraced here reflects the meaning of family involvement by the Harvard Family Research Project, one of the renowned research groups. Their definition includes all activities by parents that are purposefully "linked to learning". In Harvard family research project (Caspe, 2007) found out considerable result evidence has supported the importance of family involvement in the elementary school years, when this involvement is assessed, it has been demonstrated that family involvement can result in success at school. This can be further strengthened through family involvement, by matching the child's developmental needs, the parent's attitudes, conduct, school's expectations and care.Christenson and Reschly (2010 ) discussed that there are four common types of PI which are related to "Parental Involvement in school, at home, Parental Involvement in school and learning, and Parent participation in school activities".According to Caspe, Lopez, and Wolos (2007) during elementary schooling children undergo important developmental changes like logical reasoning, adaptability to their environment, and mannerism. …

The aim of present research is to study the fluctuation in prospective teachers Dispositions of Instructional Planning and Strategies (DIPS), during the course of teaching practice activity of four week duration with an underlying assumption that each week of the teaching practice takes turns, and so can intervene and may cause change. Teaching dispositions are the set of positive perceptions about self as able to teach, learners as capable to learn or can be made, and teaching context as favorable for teaching. Under study DIPS are pre-specified in National Professional Standards for School Teachers (NPST) in Pakistan. Teaching practice, thinking as most important constituent of teacher education, a phase for transition of, theory into practice, fantasy into reality, has been focused in present research. The survey method using DIPS scale, including 22 items against six point Likert- type of scale, validated in Pakistani context, was used. The subjects of the study were the 38 prospective teachers of MA Education programs, of a prestigious public sector [1] university in Lahore, divided into two equal groups; one teaching in public schools and other in private school. The findings for repeated measures taken in five phases; one in base line phase before teaching practice and four phases afterwards, in each week of the activity, revealed that irrespective of the setting- public or private- the magnitude of dispositions raised in first phase as compared to baseline phase, significantly dropped in second, slightly raised in third and finally fell in last phase in fourth week.   The initial magnitude of baseline phase was not re-gained in the end and thus no development, though declined, was found. Keywords: Dispositions of Instructional Planning and Strategies, Prospective Teachers, Teaching Practice.

Objective of the present study was to investigate relationship between conflict management styles and teachers' job performance at college level. Study was quantitative in nature and correlation research design was used to find out relationship between the variables. Population of the study was comprised of all the college teachers in district Lahore. Sample was selected on convenient basis, where 100 male and 100 female college teachers were selected as a sample. Two survey questionnaires were used in this study to collect data. One instrument was based on conflict management styles. Reliability of conflict management styles was .87 and job performance .77 respectively. Findings of the study concluded that there was significant strong positive correlation found between conflict management styles and teachers� job performance at college level. It was revealed that there was significant difference of male and female college teachers� perceptions found regarding conflict managemen...

Entrepreneurship is a symbol of business strength and growth which requires knowledge, skill and competency. The study aimed to explore the attitude of technology education students towards entrepreneurship. This study was descriptive in nature; quantitative approach was adopted and survey method was used to conduct the study. Census sampling technique was used to select the sample which comprised 135 students from the Department of Technology Education at Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore. The Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) scale was adapted for data collection which was developed by Lee Wei Ni, Lim Bao Ping, Lim Li Ying, Ng HueiSern and Wong JiaLihin (2012). The original version consists of 32 items, however after piloting the EI scale comprised of 26 items based on five-point Likert type scale. Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The findings reveal that the students of technology education demonstrat...

The purpose of the research paper is to investigate theacademic competence, content clarity and students’ satisfaction of students when they are taught by prospective Teachers in the B. Ed honors program.The objectives were to find out theperceptions among male and female as well as urban and rural areas’ students’ perceptions about teachers’ competence indicators, content clarity and students’ satisfaction.The sample comprised of all prospective teachers registered in B. Ed. Honsprogram in final semesters at GC University Faisalabad and they are sent for teaching practice in secondary schools. Seventy-five prospective teachers participated in the survey voluntarily that were selected randomly. Self-constructed instrument, “Students’ Performance and Satisfaction Survey” [SPSS] with Cronbach Alpha reliability (.821) was used. Data analysis was made were analyzed using frequency analysis and t-test. The findings revealed that students rate prospective teachers have the academic compet...

Present study endeavors to explore the 10 grade secondary schools English teachers’ teaching styles and learning styles of their students and examine the potential relationship between teaching learning style match with student’s academic achievement as shown by their last secondary school board’s results. A sample of forty two schools was selected from the population of Punjab province government schools. All the English class students and their class teachers were the respondent of this study. Relevant information was collected through teaching and learning styles inventories from teachers and their students and English subject result was obtained through their relevant schools. The study employed Grasha’s inventory (1996) in diverse learning styles categories related to students and investigate teaching styles related to teachers. Grasha’s inventory was employed on five sub categories of the scale. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics techniques. The results demonstrate...

It is the miracle of modern generation to have a positive look on the each and every aspect critically to reach the perfect conclusion. Unfortunately, in developing countries like Pakistan, the basic needs of classroom are not yet reached to satisfactory level. The proper utilization of innovative resources is still out of question. So, the fulfilment of learning activities outside the traditional classroom are not yet achieved. The current paper is an intention to explore the scientific attitude among students in their daily thinking. The population comprised of Honors level students. Eighty students from basic sciences and seventy-two students were selected from social sciences. The observation checklist, test and five point Likert type scale, Scientific Attitude Inventory [SAI] with .798 Cronbach Alpha value was used to investigate the students’ scientific attitude. The indicators of the instrument were, enjoyableness, difficulty, self-efficacy, relevance and logical thinking, an...

Constructivism is a vibrant and self-motivated coaching paradigm that implies the establishment of the latest academic conceptions relying on the pupil’s past educational experiences. Constructive teaching approach (CAT) accompanied with PQRST method (Preview, Question, Read, Summarize and Test) considered as an efficient way for progression of the students’ comprehension regarding skills of English subject matter. This study aimed to find the effect of constructive teaching approach (PQRST) on 9thgraders academic achievement in the provided subject of English.Quasi experimental Pre-test-posttest research design had employed to fulfill the fundamentals of the current study. Two intact groups were randomly selected, and teacher made achievement test used to take the score. Control group was instructed English conventionally whereas treatment group was instructed through PQRST under the shade of CAT. Pre-test scores demonstrated an insignificant statistical difference between both gro...

The role that parents play in the academic achievement of their children has long been considered very significant. Parental Involvement is a strategic key to both traditional and contemporary way of „face-to-face‟ schooling, including public /private schools and home schooling. Present research is destined to find out whether this connection happens in Pakistani schools, the study examined the impact of Parental Involvement on academic achievement among elementary school children in district Lahore. In this study quantitative research approach is used. The sample consisted of 1000 parents of1000 class 8th children enrolled in public and private school systems in District Lahore. A survey was conducted by Parental Involvement Project Questionnaire. For achievement score Punjab Examination Commission‟s results of class 8th were collected. Independent samples t -test and Regression applied to test the null hypotheses. The results of the study indicated the high involvement of parents ...

Education refers to a process of getting or gaining knowledge by enriching and broadening the vision of not only one's surrounding but of the entire world as well. We might have heard this phrase so many times that ‘The world is now just one click away, which clearly explains and defines the phenomenon of a globalized and interconnected world where people are connected with one another via numerous emerging technologies. These information technologies have flooded information from one nook (one specified area) to the remotest corner of the world. Perraton (1995) defined distance learning as “an educational system in which an important proportion of teaching conducted by someone removed in space and/or time from learner.”

This study discovers the effect of cooperative learning (CL) on students’ achievement and motivation toward computer science at secondary level. Nonequivalent control group design of Quasi-Experimental Research method was used. Two intact groups i.e. thirty students each, were selected as the sample of the study. Students Team Achievement Division (STAD) method of CL was applied on the experimental group while traditional method (lecture) of teaching was used for control group. Pre-test and post-test were conducted respectively by using teacher made test in computer science. Students’ Motivation toward Computer Science Learning (SMTSL) scale was adapted to explore student’s motivation toward computer science. This study significantly indicates that the posttest motivation and achievement scores of students were better than the pretest motivation and achievement scores toward computer science learning. The study promotes CL approach for computer science learning, and intervention sho...

The study was determined to find the teachers' practices in the implementation of the ECCE curriculum in public schools. The objective of the study was to find out the teachers' practices in the implementation of the ECCE curriculum in public schools. All the ECCE teachers in public schools formed the population of the study. The 20 teachers were observed through the purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by using the ECCE teachers' practices observation protocol in the implementation of the ECCE curriculum. The qualitative data was analyzed through thematic analysis. The data represents that the teachers' practices in ECCE are knowledge, learning environment, instructional strategies, assessment, individualized attention and teacher-parent relation. It is recommended that the ECCE centres may be built-in university campuses for the facilitation of the teaching practices of their prospective teacher. The government may take the initiative to build ECCE ...

Teachers’ personal theories depends upon Teachers perceptions, their learned experiences and knowledge have an implicit or explicit impact on their learning. Researches on “personal practical theories (PPTs)” evidenced that these perceptions can have impact on their practices in classrooms. At present time students have more opportunities of learning than before. This research was mix method in nature and interviews and questionnaire were used for data collections to study the opinions and perceptions of teachers about themselves. The research was carried out to investigate the perceptions of prospective teachers of elementary level. Study found diverse opinions from the participants because they have their various personal practical theories and different sources played the role for development of these theories. The aim of this study was to aid teacher educators for improved understanding of the prospective teachers’ beliefs that these prospective teachers bring to their teacher e...

The curriculum document is considered to be the road map for the attainment of the national goals. For this purpose, the text books are developed in such a way that the contents presented in the books are aligned with curriculum document. The study was aimed to align the textbook of Mathematics (grade VIII) with reference to National Curriculum 2006 for Mathematics I-XII and Bloom’s taxonomy in Punjab. This study was qualitative in nature. The alignment level was measured through Surveys of Enacted Curriculum method [SEC].The content analysis protocol was developed by reviewing the literature, National Curriculum 2006 for Mathematics and Mathematics text book developed by Punjab curriculum and Textbook Board [PCTB]. The content analysis protocol was validated in the light of opinions from two curriculum specialist and two assessment experts. The outcomes of the study revealed that the textbook of Mathematics at grade VIII was not properly developed, as instructions were stated in th...

Metacognitive skills are amongst the striking concept since a couple of decades, when Flavell, (1979) first introduced it. This concept is multidimensional in nature. Metacognition is a higherorder thinking skill. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to assess metacognitive awareness in prospective teachers and to find out how much our teacher training institutions are successfully contributing to developing such awareness in prospective teachers. This study is descriptive in nature. It is a situational analysis for the concept of metacognition in the prevailing teacher education system by doing co-relational and cross-sectional study. The instrument of this study is the metacognitive awareness inventory (MAI) developed by the Schraw and Dennison (1994). The validity and reliably of this instrument in the Pakistani context were ensured. Independent samples t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient (r) were used. Findings of the study showed positively strong and significan...

Citation: Mubashar, R., Hashmi, A., & Altaf, F. (2020). Factors Affecting Teachers’ Practices in Implementation of Early Childhood Care and Education Curriculum in Public Schools. Global Social Sciences Review, V(I), 623-632. doi:10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).62 Raima Mubashar Aroona Hashmi Fasiha Altaf Factors Affecting Teachers’ Practices in Implementation of Early Childhood Care and Education Curriculum in Public Schools

Differentiation strategies face higher uncertainty and dynamism because of design and functionality of their service in higher education. This is closely related with contextual knowledge and neoliberal approach. Researchers provide the contextual knowledge of neoliberal approach in Pakistan and state of social justice regarding higher education in the country. Neoliberal approach in education has been identified as a new trend in developing countries. Business approach in education has started treating education as a commodity and students as a costumer. Knowledge-based economy is one of the strongest factors influencing the neoliberal approach in higher education. There are certain circumstances for adaptation of this approach in higher education; however, the intellectual community needs to be aware of the pros of this approach. Humanitarian approach need to be taken care of by the government bodies in higher education. Ethical and leadership programs based on agile management ma...

Purpose of the Study: Focusing on the importance of the research interview, the researchers planned current qualitative research to explore students’ perceptions about the role of an interview conducted during the selection of M.Phil and Ph.D. admission in one of the public sector University of Lahore, Punjab-Pakistan. Methodology: The researchers adopted qualitative research leading to interpretivism paradigm. This study adopted a phenomenology research design. The researchers selected five M.Phil and five Ph.D. scholars were selected by using purposive technique. The researchers administered a self-constructed interview protocol to collect the data from the respondents. After signing a formal consent letter from participants, the researchers recorded interviews from the respondents in voice recorders and transcribed the interviews word by word. The researchers used thematic analysis approach to analyze the data. Main Findings: The results declared that the majority of the students...

There are some specific trends and regularities of behavioral patterns in individuals which determine their personality traits. This study was aimed to determine the impact of big five personality traits on academic achievement of prospective teachers. A quantitative study was conducted by using the casual comparative research design. A sample of 759 prospective teachers was selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique from two public universities. Big Five personality traits inventory (BFI) was adopted to collect data. Data was analyzed by applying inferential statistics. The findings showed the significant impact of personality traits like conscientiousness, openness to experience on prospective teachers’ academic achievement i.e. CGPA, while the impact of rest of the three variables i.e. extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism on academic achievement was not statistically significant. Findings also revealed that female prospective teachers were more emo...

This research explores the psychoanalytical aspects of the lives of South Asian immigrant characters in the novel Brick Lane (2003). The novel highlights the theme of migration, describing the shock of arrival, the process of settlement, and the subsequent problems involved in the transition from one country to another, as well as from a rural environment to an urban. This research explores cultural issues related to migrant diaspora living in London. The novel constructs a detailed exploration of the psychological responses of particular individuals to the traumas of migration and marginalization, alongside an investigation of the psychological roots of the current conflicts between different ethnic and religious groups. This research represents an interdisciplinary study, combining a detailed reading of Brick Lane with recent psychoanalytic analyses of personality development and the effects of geographical displacement and migration on the individual and collective psyche.  Salma...

The study aims to explore postgraduate research students expectations from their thesis supervisors in online postgraduate programs. Particularly it aimed to study their perceptions of the role of thesis supervisor in their postgraduate research work. The study followed survey research design. The population comprised 1118 Postgraduate (MS) students enrolled in nine programs at post-graduation level in spring 2018. Using stratified random sampling technique, a total of 150 postgraduate research students were selected from five programs (MS Computer science, M Phil Educational Leadership and Management, MS Business Administration, MS Mathematics and MS Zoology of four faculties of Virtual University of Pakistan. Data were collected through researcher made scale Expectations of Research Students (ERS) having five subscales and 28 items. Mean, Standard Deviation and ANOVA were applied for obtaining results. Findings suggested that well documented and communicated thesis supervision reg...

Metacognitive skills are amongst the striking concept since a couple of decades, when Flavell, (1979) first introduced it. This concept is multidimensional in nature. Metacognition is a higher-order thinking skill. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to assess metacognitive awareness in prospective teachers and to find out how much our teacher training institutions are successfully contributing to developing such awareness in prospective teachers. This study is descriptive in nature. It is a situational analysis for the concept of metacognition in the prevailing teacher education system by doing co-relational and cross-sectional study. The instrument of this study is the metacognitive awareness inventory (MAI) developed by the Schraw and Dennison (1994). The validity and reliably of this instrument in the Pakistani context were ensured. Independent samples t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient (r) were used. Findings of the study showed positively strong and significant relationship between prospective teachers' metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive self-regulatory skills in teacher training institutions, but it was also revealed from the results that there was a negatively weak relationship between prospective teachers' academic achievement (GPA) with their metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulatory skills. Moreover, there was an insignificant difference in prospective teachers' metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive self-regulatory skills in teachers training institutions based on demographic variables (i.e. age, gender, and university type).

The study aimed to explore the teachers' attitude toward teaching profession at secondary school level. The sample comprised of 736 (428 male and 308 female) Secondary School Teachers (SSTs) selected from administrative division of Sahiwal, Pakistan. Attitude Scale towards Teaching Profession (ASTTP) developed by Dr. Malswami (2015) was adapted from the kind permission of author. ASTTP was comprised of 36 closed-ended statements. Means and standard deviations were computed to explore the attitude toward teaching profession. T-test and one-way ANOVA were applied to calculate the difference in attitude of teachers on the basis of gender, groups (science & arts), and their teaching experience. Results showed that the attitude of secondary school teachers was positive toward teaching profession. While, male SSTs showed a better attitude than female. It was found that in terms of group, arts teachers showed higher positive attitude toward the teaching profession in comparison to science teachers. Furthermore, it was concluded that SSTs having teaching experience of 0-5 years and 16 years have more favorable positive attitude toward teaching profession than other groups