Teachers' Attitude towards Letter Grading System

Abstract

The present thesis entitled TEACHERS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS LETTER GRADING SYSTEM aimed to find out the teachers attitude towards letter grading system. This is a quantitative type of research. Keeping the objectives in consideration, fifty teachers from six different Secondary Schools of Jhapa district were sampled through non – random purposive Sampling procedure. A set of structured questionnaire was the tool of data collection. The questionnaire consists of 18 statements related grading system. Such as teachers’ attitude towards letter grading system, educational management, implication and evaluation. The collected data were organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using statistical tool such as percentage to find out the attitude of teachers. The majority of teachers have positive attitude towards letter grading system.

This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is introductory part, which includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, Significance of the study, delimitations and operational definitions of key terms. Similarly, chapter two includes review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study, concept framework. The third chapter deals with method and procedures of the study under which design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedure are mentioned. Likewise, chapter four includes result and discussion and chapter five includes summary, conclusion and implications.