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Are the future teachers apt for teaching? Teachers’ Aptitude Testing

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Are the future teachers apt for teaching? Teachers’ Aptitude Testing

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WHAT IS APTITUDE?

IntelligencePersonalityAchievement Exam

IntelligencePersonalityAchievement Exam

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•Warren's Dictionary of Psychology defines aptitude as a • “condition or set of characteristics

regarded as symptomatic of an individual’s ability to acquire to acquire training in some (usually specified) knowledge, skill, or set of responses such as the ability to speak a language, to produce music etc.”

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Choice of test

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Choice of Test

Occupational Aptitude Survey Vs.

Teaching Aptitude test battery• ->Mental Ability• ->Attitude Towards Children• ->Interest in profession• ->Professional Information• ->Adaptability

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What are DIETs?

• District Institutes of Education and Training

Teacher Training Institutes, set up under National Policy on Education ‘86

Focus on1. Resource Support2. Training3. Action Research

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Teaching Aptitude predicts

• Effectiveness• Competency• Students’ achievement• IQ

Input System OutputTeachers Schools Students’

Outcomes

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AIM

•Comparative Analysis1.Rural-Urban 2.UP Vs. Haryana3.Male Vs. Female

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Are the future teachers really apt to teach?A Case Analysis: DIET, Gurgaon

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DIET, GurgaonSample Size: 154Instrument: Teaching Aptitude Test Battery by Singh and SharmaMethodology: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

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Others: Total Number of Students1. Social Worker who responded: 1352. “Whichever PAYS more”

Mostly in Government run schools, few in Government Specified Schools

Gov. Schools Private Schools

Others0

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Where do pupil teachers want to teach?

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Why?

• More Pay• No Incentive for performance; No accountability• Hindi Speaking Population• Job Security

• Modeling• Teaching Motive• To give back to where I come from

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Field Visit

1.Efficient Functioning2.Interview Answers: “Proud

to be in DIET, Gurgaon”

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DIET, Gurgaon: Academic Achievement

• Admission on Merit; Cut off: 80%• That’s why

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43% of the students are from outside Gurgaon

% of students from gurgaon% of students from outside gurgaon

Students of DIET, Gurgaon

%

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-2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 0.50 1.25 2

(z scores)

Y AXIS1 UNIT=20 STUDENTS

Frequency Distribution of TEACHING APTITUDE of Students of DIET, Gurgaon

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Aptitude is positively correlated with Academic Achievement. Is it?Oh, well. There is something called “reservation”!

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SCORES IN SUB AREAS• MENTAL ABILITY• ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHILDREN• ADAPTABILITY• PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION• INTEREST IN PROFESSION

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-2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 .50 1.25 2.01

Y AXIS1 UNIT=10 STUDENTS

Frequency Distribution of Mental Ability of Students of DIET, Gurgaon

(z scores)

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Questions arise

• What is the kind of teacher training in Haryana’s one of the best DIETs?

• Does achievement tests in India make you able?

• If teachers aren’t mentally able, how will they teach the children?

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-2 -1.25

-0.5 0.5 1.25 2 30.00

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Adaptability of DIET, Gurgaon Students

Adaptability

z scores

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tive

freq

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Mean: 16.25S.D: 2.09

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'Attitude towards Children'

z scores

Interest in Profession

z scores

Professional Information

z scoresNEGATIVE SKEWNESS

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1ST VS. 2ND YEAR STUDENTS•More 2nd years in the above average range OF Teaching Aptitude•But no such trend in Mental Ability.

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Subjects Taught in D ed.

-> Concentrated Experience (Lack of multiplicity of experiences)Study of Child Psychology and Teacher Function

-> Infation in teaching aptitude

through“Coaching”/Social

Desirability-> TET Coaching couldn’t affect Mental Ability

•Education Philosophy – Education in Emerging India•Education Psychology•Teacher Function (Role of teachers in primary education)•Hindi•English•Mathematics •Social Science (EVS I)•Science (EVS II)•Physical Education (Games)•Art Education

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BOYSVS.

GIRLS

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Frequency Distribution of TEACHING APTITUDE of

boys and girls of DIET, Gurgaon

-2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 0.50 1.25 2

FemaleMale

Girls: Boys Ratio=1: 5

Average:Female: 82.01Male: 81.84

Sample Size:Female: 120Male: 24

RELA

TIVE

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EQU

ENCY

(z scores)

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Frequency Distribution of MENTAL ABILITY of

boys and girls of DIET, Gurgaon

RELA

TIVE

FR

EQU

ENCY

(z scores) -2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 0.50 1.25 2

FemaleMale

Average:Female: 18.12Male: 17.27

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BOYS > GIRLSAre they?

More boys are mentally superior. Why?

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Why?

17-19 20 above0

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Age Distribution (DIET, Gurgaon)

BOYS (%)GIRLS (%)

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Why?

12th Pass HOLDS A DEGREE/DIPLOMA

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Educational Qualification of the students 20 years or above (DIET, Gurgaon)

BOYS (%)GIRLS (%)

Educational Qualification

% o

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Male Vs. FemalePart Scores

Girls>BoysInterest in ProfessionProfessional Information

Boys>Girls Mental AbilityAdaptability

BOYS=GIRLSInterest in Profession

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To Do• Rural-Urban Comparative Study; • Inter-state Comparative Study; • Male-Female Comparative Study; • Correlation between Aptitude and Achievement

• ANSWER: ARE THE TEACHERS REALLY APT TO TEACH?

• RECOMMENDATIONS: POLICY REFORMS

1. RTE’S TET: IS IT THE BEST INSTRUMENT?2. TEACHING AS LEADERSHIP