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Research Paper—Education
Attitude of Resource Persons Towards
in-service Teacher Education in
The Present Context
April, 2012 * Jyoti S. Pattanshetti
* Lecturer, B.L.D.E.A,s J.S.S.College of Education P.G. Dept. of Studies in Education, Bijapur
A B S T R A C T
The present study is an effort to explore the opinions of resource persons towards in-service teacher education of secondary school
teachers. The study intends to compare the attitudes of female and male resource persons towards in service teacher education of
secondary school teachers. Simple random sampling technique is used to draw 100 samples from Gulbarga and Belgaum divisions
of Karnataka. The findings of the study reveal that there is no significant difference between the opinions of female resource persons
and male resource persons towards in service teacher education.
Introduction: agree, not decided, disagree and strongly disagree
In the present days of science and technology indicating level of preference as 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 respec-
there is a tremendous explosion of knowledge and tively. While constructing the present tool, negative
skills in all the branches of social and natural sciences. statements were not included for the fact that no re-
Teachers are the caters, and catalysts of knowledge source person being a teacher, declines or refuses (as
and skills. In various stages it is necessary to enrich per the discussion held by the research investigator
the knowledge and skills of teachers through in ser- with resource persons) to undergo in service education
vice education that is why? In service teacher educa- for the benefit of one's own professional growth. The
tion is also called as life long education and aims at statements included were based on the dimensions -
providing initial training programmes. Such educa- planning, implementation and evaluation of in service
tion is essential for the secondary school teachers in education programmes.
order to enable themselves to cope up with the chang- Standardisation of the Tool:
ing conditions prepares the teachers to face the chal- The tool has been validated by 10 experts
lenges, update their knowledge and take the adven- from the field of in service teacher education. Thus the
tures in the changing scenario. Different agencies of content validity of the tool was established. The reli-
advanced educational technology are adopted for this ability of the tool was achieved by test retest method of
purpose. The above goal has to be fulfilled through reliability by administering the tool on sample size of
different resources of in service teacher education of 40 and coefficient of correlation was found to be 0.96
secondary schools. by computing through Karl Pearson's Product Mo-
The resource persons who will conduct suit- ment Correlation method. Thus the attitude scale was
able programmes (1)for the target groups of pre ser- standardized for actual data collection.
vice and in service teacher education, and instructors Design of the study:
and supervisors of non-formal and adult education,(2) The population of the study constitutes re-
academic and resource support to elementary and adult source persons from the areas of Gulbarga and Belgaum
education systems in the district by (i)extension ac- divisions of Karnataka. Simple random sampling tech-
tivities and interaction with the field, (ii)provision of nique was employed to draw the samples of 100 re-
services of a resource and learning centre for teachers source persons, i.e. female and male in equal ratio. The
and instructors (iii) development of locally relevant researcher used descriptive type of normative survey
materials, teaching aids, evaluation tools etc, have method to collect the data. More experienced second-
been surveyed. ary school teachers, resource persons of in service
Methodology of the Study: education for secondary schools, pre-university col-
The main objective of the study is to compare lege experienced lecturers; Degree College and B.Ed
the opinions of resource persons towards in service College professors and Heads, professors of Depart-
education of secondary school teachers in the present ments in University have been surveyed to obtain the
context. data.
Construction of the Tool: Statistical Techniques employed:
The research investigator developed the at- To analyse the data, mean, standard deviation and test
titude scale of five points ranging from strongly agree, of significance (t-test) were computed. It is clear from
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Table: showing the mean, standard deviation and t-value @ 0.05 level for the atti-
tudes of resource persons towards in service teacher education.
Resource Mean Standard t-value Level of
Persons Deviation Significance
Female 71.2 65.7 0.0396 Not
Significant
Male 91.2 74.5
the table that, the calculated t-value is less than the needs of the new generation. The teacher participants
table value, 1.96 @ 0.05 level. So the null hypothesis must become competent to take active initiation to
is rejected. There is no significant difference between implement the learnt content, skills and strategies
the attitude of females and males towards the in ser- during the training in the regular classrooms. The
vice education. materials generated during the training are not so
Conclusion: satisfactory. In service education in totality should be
The resource persons revealed that, in ser- still innovative with scientific and advanced techno-
vice teacher education is essential and caters to the logical trends so as to cope with a new generation to
genuine needs and interests of the teachers in the present make the teaching learning more students centered.
context, as it develops the positive attitude towards the There should be appropriate measure to evaluate in
teaching profession. In service teacher education has service teacher education soon after the execution, so
to be more informative with reference to the changing as to get fresh feedback and follow up from the partici-
pants.
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