Effect of Cooperative Learning on Students’ Achievement in English Tenses

The present study aimed to find out the effect of cooperative learning onsecondary school students’ achievement in English tenses. In thisresearch pre-test posttest control group only design was used. On thebasis of 8th grade students’ scores in the subject of English conducted byPunjab Education Commission (PEC), sixty students of ninth grade, whowere enrolled in a public school, were divided into experimental andcontrol groups by using matched-pair technique. A teacher made test wasconducted as pre-test and post-test for both groups. No significantdifference was found in pre-test scores of experimental and controlgroups. The experimental group was treated by STAD (Student TeamAchievement Division) method of cooperative learning while controlgroup was taught by traditional learning under the control condition for aperiod for eight weeks. Analysis of the data revealed the performance ofexperimental group was significantly better than that of control group.Hence, it was concluded that cooperative learning was betterinstructional strategy for increasing the student achievement in Englishtenses. By viewing the information obtained by this study, the secondaryschool English teachers may be in a position to improve their teachingmethodology. Keeping in view the results of the study, curriculumdesigners and policy makers may be able to incorporate cooperativelearning as the methodological aspect of the curriculum. On the wholethe study will be useful for teachers, educationists, curriculumdevelopers, policy makers and educational administrators

Institutional Role on Personality Grooming of Students at Higher Secondary Level

The institute defines its aims and sets educational objectives adapted to these aims. The institute has a clear and distinct sense of its core values and character, of its distinctive elements, of its place both in colleges and in society, and of its contribution to the public good. The aims of the study were (i). To explore the practices for development of personality in institutions. (ii) To identify the role of administrators of institutes for students ‘personality development. (iii)To determine which sector is more competent in doing better personality development at higher secondary level in private and public sector institutes. With survey design the study was descriptive in its nature. The population of the study was all private and public colleges of Punjab Province. Six hundred and twenty-eight out of seven hundred and twenty students, and also thirty administrators out of thirty-two, participated in the research. Instrument was tested by conducting Pilot testing with (?=.87) reliability. Parametric statistics and summary statistics were menu plated to check the assumption, Normality tests and Boxplot were applied. To compare the private and public institutes, Non-parametric test was applied on the given information. It was concluded from the study that (i) Activities related to personality development, are doing in institutions. (ii) Administrators are doing their job in personality development among boys and girls at higher secondary level. (iii) Private sector is doing better job to the development of student’s personality than public sector

POWER POLITICS OF SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE: DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY

Surveillance is all around us in the modern time. We all are being potentially monitored in one way or the other through various means but the dataveillance is the primary tool to get information for the sake of supremacy. This article derives a relationship between the power and knowledge nexus as devised by Foucault and that is being theoretically and strategically implicated internationally in the pursuit of gaining maximum power. The literature review creates a clear understanding of the power politics that the countries are involved in to exploit individual autonomy through surveillance in the name of security. The research problem that has been tailored is the question of self-sovereignty and the blurred idea of free State and free people with the advent of the data-surveillance which is declining democratic values. Realist and critical security lens along with constructivism that has security studies roots in it have been used as theoretical framework

BARRIERS IN CAREER PROGRESSION OF WORKING WOMEN AT HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL

This purpose of this study was to identify the barriers in career progression of working women at higher secondary level. The descriptive survey research method was used to carry out the study. The quantitative research approach was adopted for which a questionnaire was administered on the subjects of study to collect data from working women comprising of the items to check the challenges in career progression of working women. Total 300 teachers were selected as a sample. The collected data were analyzed while using the descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that the organizational, cultural and individual barriers outbreak has a significant effect on career progression of working women. Therefore, it is recommended that the barriers should be lessened so that the women could progress at ease

THE LEADING ROLE OF TEACHER IN CURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND ITS EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE

Teachers are the source of inspiration and the role of teacher is beyond teaching in the classroom. The idea to mix curricular and co-curricular activities is to make student professional, having positive influence in their academics as well as personal and professional life. The researcher conducted the study to obtain its objective regarding the leading role of secondary school teachers of Lahore in curricular and co-curricular activities and their effect on students’ performance, promoting academic and technical skills in students through curricular and co-curricular activities. In order to conduct the study causal-comparative research design was used by the researcher. A questionnaire of five point Likert scale was used to collect data from the teacher of private and public secondary schools of one Tehsil of Lahore, Pakistan. Simple random sampling technique was used and both male and female teachers of public and private secondary schools were given equal chance so as every individual in the population was open to be accessed. It was concluded that curricular and co-curricular activities encourage teachers as in leading role and, students openly discuss their academic problems with teachers to have better performance. Whereas, harmony among the teacher and students exists while interacting in the class during academic activities whereas, most of the students are shy and in fear to interact in co-curricular activities. A strong leadership of teacher in the class or outside the class make students better leader. Teachers think students having the most involvement in co-curricular activities have high social skills whereas; students who are not interested to be involved in co-curricular activities have high academic achievement

STUDENTS’ LEARNING COMPARISON PRE AND DURING COVID-19

This study compared the students’ achievement on the basis of face to face and online learning. The Positivist paradigm, Quantitative approach and survey method was used for the data collection. This was a causal comparative study as the researcher couldn’t manipulate the variables. Rather the researcher just explored the already available data. The Cluster sampling technique has been utilized by the researcher for the selection of the sample comprising 160 males and females students. The instrument for the data collection was the students’ achievement tests that have been used to determine the students’ terminal achievement level. These were their university’s terminal exam papers as well as their oral presentations and written assignments. The students’ scores in their oral presentations, written assignments and the final exams of one face-to-face and one online semester were taken. The collected data was analyzed while using the Descriptive Statistics including Mean, Standard Deviation and Paired sample t-test to examine the difference of students’ achievement on the basis of online and face-to-face learning. Based on the findings, it is revealed and concluded that the students’ achievement in face-to-face instructions/learning regarding “presentations”, “final exam score” and “over all achievement” was higher than their achievement in online instructions/ learning. However, there was no statistical difference was found regarding students’ achievement in “assignment”. On the basis of the results, it is recommended that the Higher Education Institutes should arrange the alternate days attendance but with face-to-face learning approach so that the students’ performance may not be affected

The Effect of Teachers’ Efficacy on Students’ Motivation and Achievement in English at Elementary Level

This study has been conducted to investigate the effect of teachers’ efficacy on the students’ motivation to learn the English as well as on their achievement in English. The two phase sampling was used for the current research. In the first phase, the cluster sampling technique was used to select the students. The data for the students’ motivation and achievement was collected from these selected students. In the second phase, the elementary school were selected. The purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of the teachers. Only those teachers have been selected who were teaching at elementary classes. The total 100 elementary school teachers have been selected including 50% males as well as 50% females. These teachers were from 4 those schools whose students have been selected during the cluster sampling. The data for the teachers’ efficacy was collected from these selected teachers. The teachers’ efficacy has been measured with the “Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale” and the students’ motivation to learn English has been measured with the “Students’ Motivation Scale”. The students’ achievement has been measured by taking the students’ GPA of English. The Pearson’s r was applied to the collected data for investigating the relationship between the variables followed by the Linear regression in order to find out the effect of independent variable on the dependent variables. On the basis of the findings, it is concluded that the teachers’ efficacy has a significant strong effect on the students’ motivation to learn English. Similarly, the students’ achievement in English is also significantly moderately effected by the teachers’ efficacy

PROJECT BASED LEARNING VERSUS CONVENTIONAL LEARNING THROUGH ITS EFFECT ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

The purpose of this study was to explore knowledge and skills of diverse and underserved population. In this study two different ways and methods of teaching and learning have been discussed to identify the best one regarding improvement of teaching and learning culture. This study was aimed upon exploration of the gap between teaching, content and technology. Moreover, the study was intended to determine the effective learning technique that is supportive to computational thinking, collaboration among the student. Effectiveness of project based learning in comparison of the conventional learning has been explored through student academic achievement. Therefore, nature of the study was experimental and pre-test or post-test was used. Data was collected from students of public school. Findings revealed that the student need advances learning, and the change of teaching technique as compared to the conventional one yields good results towards students learning