Impact of quality teaching & learning on school effectiveness: the mediating role of student teacher ratio in high achieving secondary schools
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Date
2015
Authors
Ikramullah Qureshi
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
Abstract
There are number of factors that have mediating impact on quality teaching & learning and school effectiveness. In this study student teacher ratio had been taken as a mediating variable and its impact on school effectiveness, at secondary level high achiever school of Lahore had been studied. It was a mixed study. A random sample of size 112 was taken form private and public secondary level high achieve schools by using the random number table . Class room observation tool was adopted to observe the quality teaching and learning. Annual result 2015 of BISE Lahore was taken in to account for the measurement of the school effectiveness. Presence of student in the class room and number of student entered in the attendance register was observed to note student teacher ratio. The overall reliability of observational tool “Quality Teaching and Learning Lesson Observation” was 0.984. Mean and standard deviation of each construct i) Positive and purposeful learning environment, ii) Content knowledge and relevance, iii) Lesson presentation, iv) Assessment for learning, v) Time management, vi) Student's engagement progress, vii) Personal traits, viii) Behavior and safety of observational tool was calculated for private and public sector high achieving secondary level schools . Independent sample t test were applied to test the significance of the mean difference between quality teaching and learning between public and private sectors. Mean of all construct for private sector differ significantly from public sector. Student teacher ratio in public sector high achieving school was found to be significantly different form private sector schools. Correlation analysis was conducted among student teacher ratio, school effectiveness and quality teaching and learning. Quality teaching and learning and school effectives were positively correlated and r = .840** , school effectiveness and student teacher ratio were negatively correlated r = .777** and quality teaching and learning and student teacher ratio were found negatively related r = -.801**respectively. For the mediation analysis Preacher & Hayes, 2008 mediation analysis was conducted to find out the mediating impact of student teacher ratio and it was founded that student teacher ratio had partial mediating impact on school effectiveness.
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Keywords
School effectiveness, Quality teaching, MS.Thesis