EFFECT OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS PROGRAMME ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

摘要

Analysis of the effect of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) teachers udprogram on the performance of primary school teachers was the focal point of this study. The udobjectives of the study were: to evaluate the opinion of head teachers, peer teachers, & udstudents about the improvement in the teachers' performance as a result of CPD; to evaluate udthe performance improvement between the teachers of urban and rural localities; to analyze udthe performance improvement of teachers of four selected districts. The population of the udstudy was all the Govt. boys' primary schools of the twelve districts of Punjab, Pakistan. udSample was taken with the help of multistage cluster random sampling technique due to udpractical reasons because population had a nested structure. Firstly 4 (33%) districts were udselected randomly out of 12 districts. Secondly 344 (10%) schools, out of 3158 Govt. boys' udprimary schools, were selected randomly. Thirdly a cluster comprising eight respondents ud(one head teacher, two peer teachers, and five students of the 5th grade) was randomly udselected from each and every school for the collection of data. The total number of udpartakers/respondents (344 heads, 688 peer teachers, and 1720 students) in the study was ud2752. Three different questionnaires were used for the collection of data. Data were analyzed udby using Chi-Square statistic. Findings of the study revealed that more than eighty percent udrespondents were agreed/strongly agreed about the `improvement in the teachers' udperformance as a result of CPD, the district Okara was at the highest position while district udFaisalabad was at the lowest, and urban locality was on a higher position than rural locality udregarding the impact of CPD. Recommendations of the study were made on the basis of udresearch findings that similar experiments must be performed to evaluate the effects of CPD udon teachers' performance within the remaining districts of the Punjab, Pakistan. Research udstudies must be made to diagnose the causes of performance difference between the teachers udof urban and rural areas. CPD training must be made compulsory for all teachers up to higher udsecondary level without any discrimination of gender.