Teachers' Attitude Towards Using Teachers' Guide at Primary Level in Jajarkot District
Date
2016
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Department of Mathematics Education Central Department of Education
Abstract
Mathematics has been given a significant place in the curricula of all level of
school education since the introduction of National Education system plan (1971-
1976 A.D). But most of the students fail in mathematics. So it is necessary to identify
the cause of failure in this subject, because this is the great loss of the nation. To
decrease the failure rate, CDC prepared teacher’s Guide to help teacher for elective
teaching. Present study is concentrated to collect the attitudes of mathematics teachers
teaching in primary level teachers the physical aspect, pedagogical aspect, helpful
aspect and effectiveness of compulsory mathematics teacher’s guide for primary
level. This study indented to accomplish the following objectives:
To find out the attitudes of primary teachers towards teacher guide in
mathematics.
To compare the attitudes of community and institutional teachers about
teacher’s guide.
The above study was of survey type. To meet these objectives of the study the
corresponding null hypothesis were fundamental and subjected to the empirical
verification. This study was concluded in Jajarkot district. The sample of teachers for
the study was selected from 30 primary schools of Jajarkotdistirc 15 form community
and 15 from institutional the selection process was simple random sampling
procedure .
Questionnaire and structured interview were developed as the tool for
collection data for the study. There were 30 statements with five options for the
collection of data and at the end of questionnaire the suggestion for the better
improvement of teachers guide were demanded. The researcher personally visited the
selected school’s mathematics teachers for data collection.
The attitude score was provided to the scale 5, 4, 3,2, and 1 for the options
strongly agree, agree, undecided disagree and strongly disagree respectively for the
option of respondents on each statement.
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To verify the hypothesis of the study following statistical techniques were
applied:
χ 2 - test was used to compute the attitude of teachers
T- test was used to test the significance difference between two groups.
All tests were tested at 0.05 level of significance.
From the study, it was found that the mathematics teachers teaching at primary
level have positive attitude towards teacher’s guide of compulsory mathematics for
grade 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
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Keywords
Teaching method, Teachers' Attitude, Curriculum, Education, Primary Level, Jajarkot