(374)AN EVALUATION OF ACCREDITATION LEVEL OF TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING AT IUB

摘要

Teacher education being a significant investment for improving the quality of education can bring greatrevolutions and changes in the society. Quality can be assured by a mechanism and procedure ofaccreditation of teacher education. Accreditation is an assessment based formal judgment that thequality of a degree course or an institution meets certain standards. Higher education commission hasestablished a council (ACTE)for ensuring quality at higher level and accreditation of teachereducation programs in Pakistan. It has developed some standards for teacher education programsand set criteria for evaluation of teacher education departments. Main purpose of this study was to findout the level of accreditation of teacher education program offered by department of educationaltraining & the difference among the levels of different standards of the training program at IUB (TheIslamia University of Bahawalpur). Faculty members of the department of educational training wereconsidered the sample of this study. Standardized Questionnaires developed by ACTE were used astool of this study. Data were analyzed in terms of mean score under the criteria suggested by ACTE.The study revealed that overall department of educational training at level-III of accreditation alongwith some other important findings. Some suggestions have been made to improve the teachereducation program at department of educational training, IUB.