Exploring the Teaching Practices of Teachers at Secondary Level: From Theory to Practice

Abstract

The study was designed to explore the classroom management and evaluation techniques of secondary school teachers. The purpose of the study was to find any gaps between theoretical framework of education classroom management and evaluation methods employed by the secondary school teachers in district Toba Tek Singh. The design of the study was explanatory sequential mixed method. It was comprised of first quantitative and second qualitative phases. In first phase of the study quantitative survey was administered to 250 randomly selected teachers from the total population of 3723 secondary teachers in the district. The instrument of the study for this phase was a questionnaire developed on three-point Likert Scale format. In the second qualitative phase structured interviews were conducted from five randomly selected participants of the study. The results pointed out that the classroom management and evaluation methods within the classroom are not according to the theoretical framework of behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism.