Teachers’ Perceptions About School Innovation Practices in Secondary Schools

School innovation is the process of modern teaching by introducing new curriculum, new teaching methods and new ways of evaluation. School innovation is beneficial not only for teachers and students but also for the school administration, as the school administration will be able to keep a check and balance of innovational outputs in a friendly way. The objectives of our research were to study the school innovational practices at secondary level, teacher’s perceptions and the views of public and private school teachers regarding innovation at secondary level in Lahore. The objectives have been achieved by the responses of public and private school teachers. The nature of the research was descriptive survey and quantitative approach was employed. Purposive sampling technique was used to select sample of respondents and collect data. The close ended self-developed questionnaire was filled up by 200 respondents. Descriptive statistics was applied to get the descriptive information (frequency, central tendency, and standard deviation) of respondents. Moreover, inferential statistics (t-test and one way ANOVA) were applied to know about the differences of views among different demographic variables. At the end we concluded that private school teachers pay more emphasis on school innovation then public school teachers, so the government should maintain the standards of public schools as well by keeping proper check and balance. Keywords: School innovation, teacher’s perceptions, public and private schools. DOI: 10.7176/DCS/10-2-01 Publication date: February 29th 202

Relationship Between Teachers Attitude and College Students Learning

Teacher is the personality who works in educational organizations and enables the learners to achieve psychological, tangible and behavioral goals in lives. Teacher proficiency depends on the attitude. The positive attitude helps teachers to develop a conductive learner’s friendly environment in the class. This also casts a fruitful effect on learning of the students. Attitude begin a social construct is influenced by many factors like age, gender and steam of education. The present research is aimed to examine the relationship between teachers’ attitude and students learning. To achieve this purpose correlation research method was used. The population of the study included public and private colleges of Lahore District. The sample of two hundred students was selected. Mean, percentages, Pearson-r, t-test, and one way ANOVA were used to analyze the data.  The findings of study showed that there was positive strong relationship between attitude of teachers and learning of students. It seems that students learning is enhanced due to teacher’s good behavior and attitudes in the classroom. The students learn more with the motivation of teachers. The teachers should deal the students with positive and supportive attitude in the classroom and outside the classroom for their better learning. Keywords: Attitude, Student, Teachers, Learning. DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/9-3-0

Work-Related Attitudes of Teachers and Intention to Leave Teaching Profession

This study examined the work-related attitudes of teachers and their intention to leave teaching profession. The objective of the study was to identify the work-related attitudes of teachers at secondary level and their intention to leave the profession at secondary level and to see how these work-related attitudes, effect the teachers and enforce them to think that he/she should leave the profession and to compare the difference in views of teachers with respect to their demographics. Population of the study was secondary schools teachers of Lahore city. Purposive sampling technique was applied to select the respondents who represented the population. Two hundred male and female secondary school teachers were selected to collect the data. Questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The nature of questionnaire was likert scale. Researchers collected data from respondents personally. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data. Most of the teachers were satisfied, committed and involved in job and showed less intention to leave the profession. Administrative intervention requires financial expenditure to achieve the desired results. Thus, the government needs to improve upon the level of funding to the secondary education sector. Keywords: Work-related attitudes, Teachers, Intention, Teaching Profession DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/9-23-06 Publication date: December 31st 201

Effect of Guidance Services on study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement of secondary school students

Abstract The substantive aim of the study was to examine the effect of guidance services on students' study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. An experimental study was devised for the purpose. A guidance programme for secondary school students was developed by the researcher. An experiment was conducted to explore the effectiveness of guidance services in terms of improvement in students' study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. Ten null hypotheses were tested to explore the effect of guidance services on students' study habits, study attitudes and academic achievement in five subjects. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study indicated that the guidance services have significant effect on the students' study attitude, study habits and academic achievemen

Structural Factors Hinder Sustainable Employment of Visually Impaired Persons: A Qualitative Approach

One of the basic rights of human beings is to gain sustainable employment, in which both parties i.e. employee and employer gain mutual benefit. It is the duty of employer and organization to facilitate their visually impaired employees with accessible and comfortable structural factors. The basic aim of this study was to explore “structural factors hinder sustainable employment of visually impaired persons”. Study aimed to investigate the basic objective i.e. exploration of structural factors hinders sustainable employment of visually impaired persons. Study was qualitative in nature. Case study was used as research design. Qualitative research paradigm was used for in-depth study of structural factors hinder sustainable employment of visually impaired persons. The population of this study comprised of visually impaired employees from special education school department and higher education institutions. Sample was selected by using purposive sampling technique. A sample of 15 employees with visual impairment were selected from different educational institutions. A semi-structured interview protocol was used as a research instrument. Interview protocol was validated by field experts. Researcher approached respondents, take their consent and administer semi-structured interview. Interviews were recorded with consent of respondents and field notes were also noted. Thematic analysis technique was used to analyze the qualitative data. It was concluded that visually impaired employees face structural barriers hinder their employment at work place

A SWOT Analysis on Institutional Environments of University of the Punjab

The major purpose of the study was to identify the institutional environments’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of University of the Punjab, Lahore. The target population of the study was teachers of University of the Punjab Lahore. The sample of 235 teachers (155 males, 80 females) were selected through multistage stratified sampling technique. A questionnaire regarding the institutional environments of University SWOT Analysis “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats” was used to collect the required data for this study. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. The first part comprised of the demographic information (faculty, department, gender, teacher rank), while the second part included the statements regarding SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). Reliability index (Cronbach’s Alpha) of the questionnaire was 0.87, which is statistically acceptable. Analysis of the data indicated that there was significant difference in the opinion of respondents. Teachers of Islamic studies and Laws had difference in their opinions regarding the institutional environment strengths, and opportunities and it was supported by the findings of the study. There was significant difference in opinions of male and female teachers regarding strengths and opportunities of university. And there was no significant difference in opinions of male and female teachers regarding weaknesses and threats of university

Modeling and Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Integrated with Anaerobic Digester, Thermal Storage Unit and Solar Collector: A Net Zero Emission System

Energy production from clean and green sources is one of the eminent challenges to mankind. Overall, all industrial sectors contribute to CO2 emission, but the energy production sector is a major contributor. In recent years, CO2 emissions from the energy sector have increased by 1.7%. Therefore, the development of alternative energy production sources is a pivot for researchers. In this regard, the fuel cell has been a promising technology but still accompanied by the release of greenhouse gasses but relatively lower than that of fossil fuels. The integration of the fuel cell to the biogas has been a promising factor to reduce emissions. This study contributes to the same by producing a self-sustaining biogas-fuel cell multigeneration system for cold areas. Mathematical modeling of all complements of the system, i.e., anaerobic digester, solid oxide fuel cell, solar collector, and thermal storage system, is provided. MATLAB/Simulink environment is used for simulation of the system. The proposed system will use an anaerobic digester for methane production. Hence, produced methane will be used to power solid oxide fuel cell. The electricity of the fuel cell will power the residential place, and the thermal potential of the exhaust will be stored. In daylight, the solar thermal potential will be utilized for district heating. In the absence of solar light, stored thermal energy will be used for district heating and hot water supply. Additionally, the CO2 emitted from the system will not be released into the environment but stored for industrial purposes. The best area of application of the proposed system is cold areas such as Switzerland