Relationship Between Teachers’ Professional Competencies and Student’s Academic Achievement at Secondary Level in Azad Jammu & Kashmir
Keywords:
Teachers, Professional, Competencies, Relation, Academic, AchievementAbstract
The purpose of this study to investigate the relationship between teacher’s professional competencies and student’s academic achievement of 10th class in AJ&K. A questionnaire on five-point Likert scale was developed to collect data from the students. A survey conducted for gathering data. The data collected through the questionnaires were analyzed by using mean score and independent sample t-test. 8 schools from district Sudhnoti were chosen randomly as clusters. All 234 students of 10th class were taken by sample random technique. 40 items consisted on teacher’s professional competencies in a questionnaire for the sample of 234 of 10th class students. Pilot tested on 40 students for its validation (excluding sample). Questionnaires were collected through personal visit and with the help of those school teacher’s. The study tested teacher communication skill, teacher teaching methodologies, content skill and class room management skill. In the light of this study we found that a teacher positive relationship with students in the classroom has a strong Effect on student’s lives. Studies have concluded that teacher has adapted different learning styles, motivates students to learn, build supportive relationship using encouragement and, motivate students to learn.
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