Browsing by Author "Tooba Khalid"

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    Self reported depressive symptomatology in adolescents: a psychometric study
    (FWU Journal of Social Sciences, 2014) Sadia Saleem; Tooba Khalid; Zahid Mahmood
    This study attempts to explore cultural-specific manifestation and expression of depressive symptomatology in adolescents. 40 school children referred by their teachers to the school counsellors were interviewed to explore the expression of depressive symptomatology. A list of 32 elicited items was given to 10 school counselors for empirical validation. All those items receiving 90% agreement from the experts were retained. A final list of 27 items converted into a self report measure (Depressive Symptomatology Scale, DSS) was piloted on 30 children. In the final phase, a 385 participants selected through stratified sampling were given the DSS, the Self-Concept Scale (Perveen, Saleem, & Mahmood, 2011), and the Child Depression Inventory (1992) for concurrent validity and a demographic performa. Principal Component Factor analysis yielded a four factor solution; Sadness, Indecisiveness, Irritability and Psychosomatic symptoms. The DSS was found to have high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent and discriminant validity. Results are discussed in terms of gender differences, school counseling and cultural differences.
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    The role of teacher training in optimizing the motivation of in-service teachers
    (UMT.Lahore, 2019) Tooba Khalid
    This thesis presents some important factors of in-service teacher training in motivating and training the in-service teachers in Pakistani context. The study has two primary objectives. Firstly, the role of in-service teacher training in enhancing the teacher motivation was analyzed. Secondly, the role of in-service teacher training in improving teachers’ professional skills and building their self-efficacy and confidence was also analyzed. In-service teacher training was used as independent variable while all the others were dependent variables. The study applied quantitative survey approach. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect the data from 150 teachers of both private and public schools of Lahore city. Data of the questionnaire was analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The results of the study show that in-service teacher training somehow motivates the teachers; however, the study also supports that training sessions are not much effective as they are supposed to be. The chief factors for the teachers’ motivation are the social and financial benefits of the training sessions. The study also reveals that in-service teacher training enhances teachers’ teaching and other professional skills to some extent, but, on the same way, training programs needs to be more interactive and innovative. The study shows that the training sessions are also lacking in imparting some necessary elements of training in teachers. Therefore, the study recommends that training programs should leave the traditional approaches and upgrade themselves according to the needs. Training sessions should be more just formal sessions, and should engage the teachers in real classroom learning outcomes rather than introducing theories of learning to them.