A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IN-SERVICE PROMOTED AND DIRECTLY SELECTED SUBJECT SPECIALISTS REGARDING CHARACTER BUILDING OF THE STUDENTS AT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

This paper is designed to compare the teaching effectiveness of promoted in-service and directly selected subject specialists of higher secondary schools on the aspect of character building of the students. Promoted and selected subject specialists are working in the higher secondary schools of the country. Selected subject specialists are appointed directly by the provincial public service commission to the posts of higher secondary school teachers. Promoted subject specialists who teach in the high/higher secondary schools against some junior position as Senior English teacher in BPS-16, they have master degree in education, and when they promoted they become subject specialists. In this study sixteen higher secondary schools were selected in four districts namely DIKhan, Lakki, Bannu and Peshawar, and from each higher secondary school two subject specialists (one promoted and one selected) were selected through simple random sampling technique. In this study from sixteen higher secondary schools all sixteen Principles were selected to collect the data and total thirty-two subject specialists were selected as a sample teacher. Two colleagues subject specialist working with each promoted and selected subject specialists since last two years, and four students of each sample teacher were also selected by random sampling technique, it included 32 colleague teachers and 64 students. In this way sampling was done in case of selection of students, sample teachers, colleague teachers and promoted and selected subject specialists so the total sample size was 144. Three Likert type five points rating scales were developed and validated for students, colleagues and head teachers respectively. Each rating scale was comprised of 06 items to collect the data on the character building of the students. Data were collected in person “t” test and co-efficient of variation were applied to analyze the data at 0.05 level of significance. It was concluded that the performance of promoted subject specialists was better than the selected subject specialists regarding character building of the students.