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Title INVESTIGATION OF TEACHER-RELATED FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Author(s) Zahid Mahmood Rana

Abstract he basic purpose of conducting this study was to explore teacher-related factors contributing to students’ performance in Mathematics at secondary school level. The research objectives were: to explore teacher-related factors contributing to students’ performance in Mathematics at secondary school level, to examine the influence of teaching methodology on the performance of Mathematics students at secondary school level, to describe influence of teachers’ subject knowledge and assessment practice on the performance of Mathematics’ students at secondary school level, to identify the effect of teachers’ professional attitude on the performance of the Mathematics students at secondary school level, to determine the effect of teacher professional training on the performance of Mathematics students at secondary school level. The study was conducted in descriptive research design and qualitative research approach. A self-developed open-ended instrument, the Focus Group Discussion Guide was used for data collection. From Population of 84 Mathematics teachers, teaching at Islamabad Model College and Islamabad Model Schools for boys, 09 teachers were selected by using the purposively sampling technique. A session of focus group discussion was held at Research Library, Dawah Academy, International Islamic University, Islamabad. Discussion was continued more than an hour with the participants. Views and suggestions of the entire participants were recorded and noted by the researcher. Collected data was analyzed by using thematic analysis technique. Each theme was analyzed separately and got the meaning from their expressions and elaborated their perception into discussions and extracted the findings of this study. Findings indicated that in service Mathematics teachers have insufficient subject knowledge and their pedagogical skills are not very strong. They are less motivated to students and not very skilful to assess the performance. They have less chances to avail teacher training programs. Based on findings it could be argued that teacher’s subject knowledge, pedagogical skills, assessment practices, professional attitude and professional training are the factors which influenced the performance of Mathematics students at secondary school level. The study recommended that in service teachers training programs may be conducted for teachers.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Education

Language English

Publication Date 2021-11-29

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Description Mathematics is important for all the fields of life. Its expertise is necessary not only for the professionals, economists, accountants, bankers but also for the teachers, students, and common gentlemen. It is one of the essential in science subjects which assists in the development process of Technology and engineering (Deepika, 2021). To achieve an excellent academic grade in Mathematics is the main concern of stakeholders, educationists, and policy makers to focus on testing, assessing, teachers’ quality and school choice (Nasser, 2017). The most important manifestation of quality education must be link with literary, cognitive abilities and performance to higher levels of learning (Moyano et al, 2017). It is necessary for all students to achieve learning objectives successfully but unfortunately only some of them can meet the prescribed criteria.