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    Psychologists serving persons with special needs
    (LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013) Amna Arif; Abdul Hameed
    Psychologists working in special schools collaborate with special education teacher for the rehabilitation of persons with special needs. The topic of standard operating procedures. The purpose of the study was to develop a manual prescribing specifically all the responsibilities and possible roles of psychologists in special schools. The objectives of the research were to highlight the need for clear standards for psychologists working in special schools, investigate the existing roles and responsibilities of psychologists, highlight the perception of special education teachers as well as administrators about the roles and responsibilities of psychologists, in order to develop a standard operating procedure (SOP) for psychologists working in special schools in consultation with administrators, special education teachers and psychologists. In this descriptive research, researcher developed a scale on the basis of related literature. The scale consisted on 30 items covering seven areas. These areas include assessment and interpretation; direct intervention for students; consultation and training; program development; school psychology program; professional practice and development; and communication and relationship skills. The data were collected through purposive sampling from 70 psychologists and 100 special education teachers from different districts of Punjab Province of Pakistan. The data was analyzed statistically and conclusions were drawn. Frequencies of responses were computed and the items bearing up to or above 75% percent agreement were selected for SOP. Item no. 1.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 are not selected and their agreement percentages are respectively, 72%, 43%, 65%, 62%, 60%, 67%, 59%, 46%, 66%, 70%. All the areas in the scale were selected except one which is professional practice and development. The interrater reliability of psychologists and special education teachers was 0.73. The result showed that respondents have almost same perception about the roles and responsibilities of psychologists regardless of their gender, age, income. There is a significant difference in the opinions of psychologists and special education teachers about the roles and responsibilities of psychologists working in special schools. On the basis of the results, a standard operating procedure (SOP) was developed and validated by the 6 experts from the relevant fields. An open-ended question at the end of the scale was analyzed qualitatively and suggestions by the respondents were incorporated in the SOP in order to further improvement.
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    Rasch calibration of general science test at grade-viii in pakistan
    (2012) Muhammad Javid Qadir; Iram Gul Gilani; Abdul Hameed
    The present study aimed at calibration of General Science achievement test for grade (VIII) through Rasch Model. For this purpose a General Science achievement test comprising 45 items was constructed from the text book of General Science for class VIII. Finally the test was administered to 300 students (M/F) in different high schools for boys and girls in Multan District. The answer sheets were scored and results were tabulated. Eleven (11) items were rejected on the basis of F, D and . Fifteen (15) items were to be improved on the basis of F, D and . Remaining all items were good items. Rasch Model indicates that overall test is good to measure the achievement of the students class (VIII) in the subject of General Science. On the basis of findings, major conclusions were drawn: One item was rejected on the basis of facility index (F). Twelve (12) items need improvement on the basis of facility index (F). Thirty two (32) items were very good items on the basis of facility index (F). Seven items were rejected on the basis of discrimination index (D). One item needed improvement on the basis of discrimination index (D). Thirty seven (37) items were good items on the basis of discrimination index (D). Three items were rejected on the basis of phi-co-efficient (). Two items needed improvement on the basis of phi-co-efficient (). Forty items were good on the basis of phi-co-efficient (). Test has high positive test reliability value.22 distracters were to be rejected as attempted by less than 5%.The distracters D(27), B(28), A(31), D(37), B(41), A(43) and B(10) were distracters attracted by high achievers more than low achievers, so they were rejected.
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    Teachers perception about the usefulness of it labs project in schools of punjab, pakistan
    (World Journal on Educational Technology, 2014) Muhammad Javid Qadir; Pacurar, Ecaterina; Abdul Hameed
    ICTs can provide relevant and high quality knowledge and this knowledge helps students in field work. A strong ICT framework in education is an essential for knowledge- based development. The Punjab IT Labs was the first project of its type launched by the provincial government of Punjab. 4286 computer labs were established in public secondary schools of province Punjab in 2009 under this Project. The objective was to investigate the views of teacher about the usefulness of Punjab IT Labs Project. The population of the study was included all teachers of Govt. Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools equipped with IT labs in Punjab. Six (6) districts were selected randomly among all 36 districts for study. Data was collected by developing survey questionnaire. The questionnaire was consists of questions designed to collect data concerning perceptions of teacher about the usefulness of Punjab IT Lab Project. A five points Likert scale questionnaire was adopted for measuring teachers' perceptions about the usefulness of Punjab IT Lab Project. SPSS 19 was used to analyze the data. Most of the teachers do not use IT Lab due to lack of time and lack of knowledge about computer. The study recommended that the teachers should be provided training about computers. There is also need to provide technical support and maintenance fund to get better results of this mega project.