Are the future teachers apt for teaching? Teachers

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Are the future teachers apt for teaching?
Teachers Aptitude TestingComparative
AnalysisRural-UrbanInter-stateMale-Female
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What is aptitude?

• Intelligence
• Personality
• Achievement
• Exam

Intelligence Personality Achievement Exam

• condition or set of characteristics regarded as
  symptomatic of an individuals 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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Teaching Aptitude predicts

• Effectiveness
• Competency
• Students achievement
• IQ
• Input ? System? Output
• Teachers ? Schools? Students Outcomes

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Choice of test
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Choice of Test

• Occupational Aptitude Survey
• Vs.
• Teaching Aptitude test battery
• -gtMental Ability
• -gtAttitude Towards Children
• -gtInterest in profession
• -gtProfessional Information
• -gtAdaptability

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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 on
• Resource Support
• Training
• Action Research

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Are the future teachers really apt to teach?
DIET, Gurgaon Sample Size 154 Instrument
Teaching Aptitude Test Battery by Singh and
Sharma Methodology Quantitative and Qualitative
Analysis

• A Case Analysis DIET, Gurgaon

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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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DIET, Gurgaon Academic Achievement

• Admission on Merit Cut off 80
• Field Visit Efficient Functioning
• Interview Answers Proud to be in DIET, Gurgaon

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Frequency Distribution of TEACHING APTITUDE of
Students of DIET, Gurgaon
Aptitude is positively correlated with Academic
Achievement. Is it?
Y AXIS 1 UNIT 20 STUDENTS
-2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 0.50
1.25 2
(z scores)
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SCORES IN SUB AREAS

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

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Frequency Distribution of Mental Ability of
Students of DIET, Gurgaon
What is the kind of teacher training in Haryanas
one of the best DIETs? Does achievement tests in
India make you able? If teachers arent mentally
able, how will they teach the children?
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Mean 16.25 S.D 2.09
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NEGATIVE 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.
-gt Concentrated Experience (Lack of multiplicity
of experiences) Study of Child Psychology and
Teacher Function

• 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

Coaching Vs. Social Desirability Vs.
Reality -gt TET Coaching couldnt affect Mental
Ability
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BOYS VS. GIRLS
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TEACHING APTITUDE of boys and girls
MENTAL ABILITY of boys and girls
Girls Boys Ratio1 5 Average Female
82.01 Male 81.84
BOYS gt GIRLSAre they?
Female Male
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Why?
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Why?
?
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Male Vs. Female

• Part Scores
• GirlsgtBoys
• Interest in Profession
• Professional Information
• BoysgtGirls
• Mental Ability
• Adaptability
• BOYSGIRLS
• Interest 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
• RTES TET IS IT THE BEST INSTRUMENT?
• TEACHING AS LEADERSHIP