Effects of teachers' professional competence on students' academic achievements at secondary school level in Muzaffarabad District

Kishwar Naz

• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Edition: 1
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods
• eBook ISBN:
  9783668416970

Quality education is the base for the development of any nation. For quality education, competent teachers are necessary. Every country has designed its own standards to measure the proficiency of teachers. Pakistan has also presented its standards for teachers. The study was an effort to see the "Effects of Teachers' Professional Competence on Students Academic Achievements at Secondary School level in Muzzafarabad District" in the light of National Professional standards for Teachers. Objectives of the study included to identify professional competencies of teachers in public Secondary Schools of Muzaffarabad district, find out the relationship between teachers professional competence and students achievement at secondary schools, compare the difference between achievements of female and male students at secondary schools, identify the discrepancies in professional competence of teachers affecting the achievement of students, and to suggest the measures for the improvement of professional competence in teachers. The hypotheses of the study were H1, "There is a significant relationship between teachers' professional competence scores and students' achievement scores at Public secondary schools".H2, "There is a significant difference between professional competence scores of male and female teachers at public secondary schools".H3, "There is a significant difference between the achievement scores of male and female students at public secondary schools". The study was delimited to public sector secondary schools, achievements of students of 10th class during session 2014. The study was descriptive in nature and was conducted by survey method. Data were collected for research with the help of questionnaire that was validated by experts and Cronbach Alpha's method. Population of the study was 400 female teachers and 456 male teachers. Sample of the study was 424 teachers (200) female and (224) male teachers. Sample was selected by using simple random sampling technique. For concluding results of study, percentage, mean score, Pearson r and t-Test was used. It was found out that male and female teachers were competent. There was significant difference between male teachers' professional competence scores and female teachers' professional competence scores. It was found out that there was difference between male students' achievements scores and female students' achievements scores.