Critical incidents analysis as a strategy for teachers' professional development

Abstract

This study entitled “Critical Incidents Analysis as a Strategy for Teachers’ Professional Development” firstly, aimed at identifying the teachers’ awareness of Critical Incidents Analysis (CIA) for their professional development, its procedure and practices for TPD. Secondly, it had the objective to explore the teachers’ perceptions on the role of CIA for their professional development. I used non-random purposive sampling procedure and collected data from forty secondary level English language teachers teaching in private and public schools in Surkhet district through questionnaires. The collected data have been presented in tables and pie-charts; and analyzed and discussed quantitatively. The major findings of the research showed that only about half of the teachers were aware of CIA and its procedure whereas less than half of the teachers practiced CIA for their professional development. However, most of the teachers had positive attitude to CIA and they perceived that CIA had significant role in TPD. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with theoretical and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter deals with methodology which incorporates research design and method, population, sample and sampling strategies, field/site of the study, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with the rigorous analysis of data and interpretation of results along with the summary of the findings. The fifth chapter presents the conclusion and recommendations of this research in different levels such as policy related, practice related and further research related ones. References and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.