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    Classroom management as a contributing factor towards learning at secondary school
    (University of Management and Technology, 2013-06) Ali Abbas
    Education has ever been a concern of societies with a touch of quality, equality, equity and sustainability of the same. The processes of education contribute towards the promotion of functions and elevation of the products of education. One of the processes that gains prominence is the classroom management. In classroom management it is not only the seating rather it is the attitude that develops in students the urge for education. In normal practice the big towns attract the attention of educators, decision makers and planners, but the little towns like chiniot does not catch the attention of the concerned to develop the school in general. There were only four male schools in chiniot three in government sector and one in private sector. All the four were approached for the conduct of research; the permission to this effect was obtained from the authorities of the schools. Two questionnaires were developed for the furtherance of research; one was meant for students studying in the class ten of the schools for the session 2012-13 and another was meant for the teachers working in those schools and were the teachers of the students selected as the subjects of study. There were 56 items in the questionnaire meant for the students and 53 in the questionnaire meant for the teachers. The face validity was got determined by the experts and the same questionnaires were administered to the class IX students of the sample schools chronebach alpha was computed as .79 and .73 for the questionnaires meant for the teachers and the students as well respectively. As per permission the researcher turned up gave a briefing session to the students in their respective classes and the teachers in the staffroom about the filling in of the questionnaire as per intents of the research. The intent of research laid down as objectives was as; identifying the practices followed by teachers and their impact at secondary level achievement of the students, isolating the good classroom managers.
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    Classroom management as a contributing factor towards learning at secondary school
    (UMT, Lahore, 2013) Ali Abbas
    Education has ever been a concern of societies with a touch of quality, equality, equity and sustainability of the same. The processes of education contribute towards the promotion of functions and elevation of the products of education. One of the processes that gains prominence is the classroom management. In classroom management it is not only the seating rather it is the attitude that develops in students the urge for education. In normal practice the big towns attract the attention of educators, decision makers and planners, but the little towns like chiniot does not catch the attention of the concerned to develop the school in general. There were only four male schools in chiniot three in government sector and one in private sector. All the four were approached for the conduct of research; the permission to this effect was obtained from the authorities of the schools. Two questionnaires were developed for the furtherance of research; one was meant for students studying in the class ten of the schools for the session 2012-13 and another was meant for the teachers working in those schools and were the teachers of the students selected as the subjects of study. There were 56 items in the questionnaire meant for the students and 53 in the questionnaire meant for the teachers. The face validity was got determined by the experts and the same questionnaires were administered to the class IX students of the sample schools chronebach alpha was computed as .79 and .73 for the questionnaires meant for the teachers and the students as well respectively. As per permission the researcher turned up gave a briefing session to the students in their respective classes and the teachers in the staffroom about the filling in of the questionnaire as per intents of the research. The intent of research laid down as objectives was as; identifying the practices followed by teachers and their impact at secondary level achievement of the students, isolating the good classroom managers. The study being restricted to the topic, “Classroom management as a contributing factor towards learning at secondary school” was expected to surrender following divide dents; • Classroom management, often called classroom discipline, the opinion surveys of educational priorities were mostly divulged through such surveys, (Rose & Gallup, 2006) the study would help excavate that how discipline problem is being controlled through classroom management. • In a 2006 survey of Pre-K through 12th grade teachers conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA), teachers identified help with classroom management and instructional skills as their top need. Results from this study would help us know the realities on ground. • Educators have consistently rated discipline as one of the most serious obstacles to promoting effective teaching. In addition:classroom management has been cited as one of the most prevalent reasons for job burnout and attrition of first-year teachers,teachers’ concerns over their own safety directly relate to the use of effective classroom management programs. • It would be made known that how much students feel unsafe due to lack of effective disciplinary procedures and potential for violence. • Although there is no agreed-upon definition of classroom management, the framework offered by Evertson and Weinstein (2006) represents a current and widely accepted view. According to Evertson and Weinstein, classroom management has two distinct purposes: “It not only seeks to establish and sustain an orderly environment so students can engage in meaningful academic learning, it also aims to enhance student social and moral growth” (p. 4). The authors identify five specific tasks that show classroom management as a multi-faceted activity. It extends beyond some of the more traditional behavior management techniques frequently recommended to deal with students with disruptive behavior. Specifically, they note that teachers should do the following: • Develop caring, supportive relationships with and among students; • Organize and implement instruction in ways that optimize students’ access to learning; • Use group management methods that encourage student engagement with academic tasks,Promote the development of student social skills and self-regulation; and • Use appropriate interventions to assist students who have behavior problems. • Multi-level model of interventions can be explored begining with (1) school-wide systems of support (called universal or primary prevention), (2) small group or more focused interventions (called selected or secondary intervention) for students who have similar problems such as aggression, and (3) individualized interventions (called indicated or tertiary intervention) for students who need very focused and more intense services for problematic and disruptive behavior. • Tertiary interventions may typically be used with students who have a more severe range of disruptive behaviors. These interventions begin with a functional assessment of the problematic behaviors. • At the universal level, schools establish expectations for behavior; students, staff, and families state these expectations to ensure that they are understood; schools operationalize positive behaviors and teach them to students; teachers have pro-social contacts with students; teachers receive formal training in behavior management; the school establishes a school-wide leadership team; and the school implements a systematic system of recording student behavior to facilitate decision-making regarding students behavior. • At the secondary level of intervention, an evidence-based program such as First Steps to Success (Walker, Stiller, Bolly, Kavanagh, Steverson, &Feil, 1997) can be implemented with groups of students in need of this level of support. At the tertiary level, schools can establish individualized programs for some students based on an analysis of what function the problematic behavior may be serving for the student. • Because most classroom teachers have not been trained in functional assessment of behavior, it is important that they consult with their colleagues who have expertise in this area. Detailed information on establishing systems of positive behavioral support can be obtained from this study • “Schooolwide Positive Behavior Support: Building Systems to Develop and Maintain Appropriate Social Behavior” in the Handbook of Classroom Management Lewis, Newcomer, Trussell, and Richter (2006). • In contrast to PBS, which is based on a multitiered risk model of prevention, SEL focuses on building life skills and social competence. Further information on SEL can be found through several sources (e.g., Devaney, Utne O’Brien, Resnik, Keister, &Weissberg, 2006; Elias, Zins, Weissberg, Frey, Greenberg, Haynes, Kessler, Schwab-Stone, & Shriver, 1997; Zins, Weissberg, Wang, & Walberg, 2004). • As an example of establishing social and emotional skills in the classroom, a teacher may hold class meetings or sharing circles where students are encouraged to share their thoughts and feelings about school and community events. These activities promote social interactions and build a sense of community in the classroom. The study has been designed to achieve the objectives like;identification of the practices, extent of their use, their impact and isolating good practices of classroom management from the bad. Research under question was a descriptive survey of the opinions of teachers and students at Government and private Boys High Schools of class IX session 2012-13. Study was intended to find out the classroom management ways at the four schools. Two questionnaires were developed one for the teachers and the other for the students. Data were collected by the researcher himself by administering the instruments.Only three available government high schools and one private boys high school was selected as the sample spot. 100 students each from three government schools and 100 students from one private school could be selected as sample because of the maximum number of available students. Four science teachers teaching to the science students were selected as the sample from each of the government and private boys high schools which were selected as sample. Two teachers whose classroom management was to be evaluated were one each from government and private boys high school, were also supposed to act as sample. No categorization could be made as rural/urban etc. Two questionnaires were developed one for the teachers and the other for the students. The face validity of the instruments was got determined by the experts where as the reliability was determined through pilot test and computing of Chronbach Alpa. The reliability of the questionnaire for students was .73 and that of teachers it was Lists bearing the name and roll numbers were obtained from the class teachers. Permission to administer the questionnaires was sought from the school principals. Data time and venue was settled with the teachers concerned. Researcher turned up earlier got the seats adjusted before the start students were told the intent of research. Each of the questions was translated in Urdu written on the black board, on attempting the item passed on to the next. Regarding teachers their convenient schedule was asked for and time date and venue was fixed with each teacher individually. The study made us recommend; developing caring, supporting relationships with and among students. In addition to it organizing implementing instruction in ways that optimize students’ access to learning, go for the use of group management methods that encourage student engagement with academic tasks, promote the development of student social skills and self-regulation; and use appropriate interventions to assist students who have behavior problems.
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    Implications of 18th amendment on educational policy in pakistan
    (UMT.Lahore, 2018) Ali Abbas
    The topic of the research under question was the “Implications of 18th Amendment on Educational Policy in Pakistan”. the objectives of the study were to identify the various realms in which the powers have been delegated to the provinces, to know the measures taken and implications of those measures for the betterment of education system at large, make a mention of the changes brought about and the differences seen as an effect on educational system. The study was qualitative in nature where in the documentary analysis was relied upon. The notifications made by the Government of Pakistan and Govt of Punjab pertaining to 18th Amendment were taken up for the research purpose. A template was developed for the presentation and evaluation of the documents. The concerns of the amendment in view of the devolution of powers to the provinces were evaluated. Focus group interviews have been conducted to bridge the gaps in the information which could be procured of documentary analysis. The conclusions drawn were that the more focused efforts could be seen in the realms. It was divided into six parts viz; Amendments made in general, Free and Compulsory education, Education for all, Balancing rights and responsibilities, Development of Higher Education Commission Punjab, Development of Punjab Curriculum and textbook board. The major conclusions were that the amendments made during Gen Zia ul Haq and Gen Musharraf stands cancelled like legal frame work 2402 and 2002. Right to information and right to education were ensured through article 9A and 25A both articles were newly inserted. Conduct of research in scientific and technical matter was made an obligation of higher education commission. The Punjab Curriculum and textbook board was developed wide bill no 26. Till the research was done no considerable could be done exclusive of the earlier said.
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    Khidmat alert
    (UMT Lahore, 2021-03-08) Rana Noman Naeem; Ali Abbas; Muhammad Shahzad
    This project will help those people who doesn’t have any platform of publishing the news of missing child. Nowadays children are missing in large numbers and there is no clue for the parents about where their children are, why they were kidnapped, and for what purpose. In this situation, they don’t have any resource to find their missing children or know whom to contact. Police stations can spread the news very slowly and over many days, and there is no platform that spreads the news accurately across the whole country. So, we came up with this idea that can help families on a large scale. We can also collect data every year on how many children are kidnapped and from which places, very quickly. Through this application, users can create a post about a missing child and upload it. This post will be notified to social welfare organizations quickly so that they can take action and reduce the risk for families. The application will also have a newsfeed where users can check news and posts that other users have posted. Users can also search for specific posts.
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    Smart energy meter
    (UMT.Lahore, 2016) Ghulam Mahyoudin; Ali Abbas; AsimTanveer
    Every system is trying to make automatic, portable and remote control. This work presents a smart energy meter for an automatic and higher level metering and billing system. The integration of the Arduino and GSM provide communication through short message service the meter reading system with some automatic functions that are predefined. The proposed smart energy meter system can incorporate with embedded controller and GSM to transmit the data like consumed energy in kWh, generated bill, security services over GSM mobile network and comparison of two days data on meter such as data could be then fed and integrating into existing energy management systems located at power companies to provide the services among the customers. Our project is able to provide all required services casually for metering and billing with high fidelity. The main objective and goal of the project is to produce a GSM based energy meter reading system through short message service (SMS). The electricity department and the consumer can get the readings of the energy meter of consumers by SMS.This type of data is also given to the department of electrical engineering using Globel system for mobiles (GSM) technology for electricity billing purposes. Due to high electricity cost these days it becomes arsenical for the users to know as to how much electric Arduino input is actually connected to an integrated circuit smart energy meter and displays the reading calculated on an LCD screen. The reading of the energy meter is also sent to the control room by SMS via GSM modem SIM loaded. The project is designed to read the electrical energy consumed by users in units and rupees for displaying on a screen liquid crystal display (LCD) to the user.Metering is used to control electricity to save their money for bill within his income or budget. In this assumed system, the user will gain his real time data on the of energy consumption show on a LCD. The same data is sent through GSM modem to the electricity metering department and also to customer end by SMS. Arduino is interfaced to the smart energy metering integrated Circuit to get the Watt Hour pulses. The Arduino then procedure these pulses or signal related to the program written in it, and to calculate the units and bill used and cost involved for the user. Further it gives command to the subscriber identity for mobiles SIM in GSM modem for giving the data to the electricity metering department by short message service SMS. Also, the electricity metering department can send the daily, weekly and monthly bill amount over SMS to the receiving unit for consumer information.
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    TO BE OR NOT TO BE A WOMEN POLITICIAN
    (UMT.Lahore, 2018) Ali Abbas
    Pakistan is a curious mix of variety and discrepancy, with its own explanations, which is evident among the status of women and men in the society of Pakistan. Pakistani Society is systematized on the foundation of sexual category and gender associations are obviously based on sexual division of labor (Aurat Foundation 2012). This Society identifies the women in isolated circle of home, mostly as wives and mother, but this society identifies the men in unrestricted circle as main source of income and bread winner. This as a result gets reflection in all circles of life and has useful and substantial effects for both women and men. in Pakistani societies the families pays more attention and facilities like property, resources, better opportunities, luxury life style to boy child than a girl child because usually it’s a concept that girls are guests in her parents’ home and they left her father’s home after they getting married.
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    Which positioning strategy outperforms?
    (Science International Journal, 2014) Shrafat Ali Sair; Nazia Rafiq; Ali Asghar; Saima Ulfat; Muhammad Ahsan Jamil; Ali Abbas
    The effectiveness estimation of positioning strategies perceived by consumers is a challenge for marketers and confusion is still there in their minds, at the same time in the mind of strategy makers that which strategy is more successful. Successful positioning and its well established perception on consumer side are the symptoms of company’s long run progress and product’s success. Empirical, the relative effectiveness of taken positioning strategies is measured. A multidimensional scale is used to measure the effectiveness. The scale is constituted by the four dimensions including dissimilarity, uniqueness, favorability and credibility. Each dimension is assessed by the associated elements that are seventeen in total. Practically, three print advertisements from cellular industry are selected with the experts ‘opinion. Each advertisement represents the given positioning strategy. Quantitative data were gathered by showing these advertisements to the 100 consumers that are selected via purposive sampling technique. The statistical technique, ANCOVA is applied herein the study. The results showed both benefit positioning strategy and surrogate strategy received the much higher and significant score against the three dimensions of positioning effectiveness (i.e., favorability, dissimilarity and uniqueness) whereas results are not significant for credibility dimension.