Sadia Shaukat

University of Education · Education

The Standards Self-Efficacy Scale (SSES) was developed to assess 204 pre-service teachers' self-efficacy beliefs to utilize as part of the InTASC professional standards for teachers. Principal component analysis revealed the nuanced factor structure of the SSES to measure standards-based self-efficacy. The SSES was compared to the well-established...

The aim of the study was to measure the students' cognitive engagement by considering their motivational drives during the remote learning process because of COVID-19 pandemic. Stipulated this, the study employed Biggs's (1987) Study Process Questionnaire to measure students' cognitive engagement enrolled in the public and private universities by o...

The Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) scale measures pre-service teachers’ understanding of initial motivations for choosing teaching as a career. A sample of 95 primary and 247 secondary pre-service teachers from Pakistan reported their reasons for choosing teaching as a career. This study used principal component and confirmatory f...

Considering the needs of children with diverse needs, current legislation emphasizes the allocation of a special budget to address the needs of children with disabilities in Pakistan. However, Pakistan is one of the countries that is not investing a reasonable budget to accommodate the needs of children with disabilities like many other developing...

This study aims to examine the relationship between teacher educators’ technostress, work– family conflict, and life satisfaction while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. The sample consists of 292 respondents, 151 (51.7%) male and 141 (48.3%) female teacher educators, who participated in this study. Three scales, the Techn...

This paper critically analyses 52 Australian and 68 Pakistani pre-service teachers’ (PST) perceptions of professional standards for teachers enabling the comparison of teacher preparation in the two countries. A multivariate analysis of variance tested the hypothesis that an integrated standards-based teacher preparation program was more effective...

The present research examines the effects of professional competencies of the university on students’ perceived employability including the relationship between perceived employability and professional competencies of postgraduates from public and private universities. The study was carried out on a sample of 300 hundred postgraduates including mal...

It is the need of the hour to incorporate peace promotion as one of the significant features of the educational institutions in Pakistan. The present study explores the impact of a peace promotion intervention, with control and experimental groups, in order to understand if specific planned activities can significantly improve the peace-building at...

In this article we explore the use of teacher professional standards in an initial teacher education programme and preservice teacher perceptions of their preparedness for teaching using a survey of 54 first‐ and second‐year preservice teachers in a graduate‐entry programme. The survey asked the preservice teachers to respond to 16 questions based...

Understanding the determinants of teacher mobility is important in order to implement effective policies for the recruitment, retention, and fair allocation of teachers. The teacher transfer policy implemented in Punjab, Pakistan, is intended to address corruption and a fair allocation of teachers in public schools. However, the policy has implicat...

The identity, belongingness to the larger society as well as mental well-being of minorities in Pakistan may have suffered as a result of recent social and political attacks on Christians. The present study was aimed at finding and comparing various aspects of identity (i.e., personal, social, relational, and collective) and mental well-being among...

Considering the stereotypical views that affect women who aspire to high-ranking leadership roles in higher education, this study determines the perceptions of teachers about their role in the academic. This study was qualitative that invited women and men in higher education institutes to participate in the interviews to determine their understand...

The aim of this research was to assess teacher educators' knowledge, perceptions and understanding of the Strengthening Teacher Education in Pakistan (STEP) project which was designed to develop professional standards for teachers in Pakistan. Using a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews, data were collected from teacher educators (...

The study was carried out to investigate the elementary school level prospective teachers' preparation towards inclusive practices and comfort level to teach students with diverse needs at elementary level. The study was followed by ultimate objective of measuring the impact of demographic variables in prospective teachers' preparation and comfort...

The purpose of this study was to compare perceptions of teaching professionalism by Turkish and Pakistani teachers. The study used a quantitative, non-intervention, descriptive survey design. The research sample was 315 teachers from Turkey and 202 from Pakistan. The teacher professionalism (TP) scale used to collect data included 46 items, two of...

Purpose: Educated females play an important role in the social and economic development of a country. The aim of the study was to assess the problems facing females before entering higher education, and then after education when joining professions. Research Methods: Using a higher education survey questionnaire, data were collected from 2188 femal...

The current study was carried out to investigate the perceptions of Madressah system of education. The objective of the study was to explore the perceptions of Madressah students from five Islamic sects (Barelvi, Deo-bandi, Ahle-Hadith, Shia and Jamaiyate-Islami) about madressah system of education at five Lahore madrassahs. Thirtyseven students we...

This study assessed the emotional intelligence and selfefficacy beliefs of in-service and pre-service teachers. It was hypothesized that gender effects self-efficacy and emotional intelligence among in-service and pre-service teachers. The sample consisted of 372 participants from two public universities and four public schools. Data were collected...

Terrorism has cast a spell of fear on the nation of Pakistan. It has influenced every walk of life, but specifically it has had an horrific impact on educational institutions. The current research study was aimed at examining the concerns of students about terrorism. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be difference in students’ concern abo...

The objective of this study was to determine the academic confidence of students in relation to gender, age, qualification and program of studies. Academic confidence means one's strong beliefs or definite expectancy in academic field of the student (Sander & Sanders, 2004). It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference in students' ac...

Gender inequality amongst a sample of higher education faculty in Pakistan shows that just over one half work in institutions where females enjoy full gender equality. A three element model of female inequality has been tested by a questionnaire survey of 180 faculty staff to provide reliable and valid measures of the five aspects of the working en...

This study was sought to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem among prospective teachers during a pre-service teacher education program. It was hypothesized that EI is a strong predictor to self-esteem of prospective teachers. The sample consisted of 253 participants enrolled in the teacher education program at...

The research is aimed to develop a valid and reliable instrument which is will measure professionalism level of teaching profession based on literature, expert and practitioner masters' student of educational administration program knowledge. Research sample consisted of 315 teachers from different parts of Turkey at elementary and secondary level....

Problem statement: Gender disparity is a worldwide phenomenon. This disparity is not only with respect to opportunities and resources but also in rewards, and exists in all regions and classes. Gender disparity exists in the field of education as well. Females experience overt and subtle gender discrimination to some extent nearly at every stage of...

Students often rate courses in research methods negatively and regard them as difficult. This study used the Attitudes towards Research Scale (Papanastasiou, 2005) to assess the attitudes of 201 randomly selected postgraduate students of teacher education programs from public and private universities in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that students h...

This study sought to determine the attitudes and teaching self-efficacy of pre-service teachers towards the inclusion of students with disabilities into regular classrooms. A questionnaire was administered to 194 pre-service Pakistani teachers (male 73, female 121) enrolled in a 1-year teacher education programme at a government university in Pakis...

The study was conducted to examine the changes in self-efficacy beliefs in prospective teachers during a Master's level pre-service teacher education program, and sampled 96 female and 20 male student teachers from a public university in Pakistan. A 5-point, Likert-type scale incorporating the four factors: locus of control, persistent behavior, cl...

This study was conducted to measure the prospective teachers' locus of control, persistent behaviour, classroom anxiety and professional mastery beliefs during teacher education program. An intact classroom of B.Ed program was randomly selected as a sample of the study. 70 prospective teachers including 67 females (95.7%) and 3 males (4.3%) with me...

This study investigated the attitudes and self-efficacy of Pakistani and Australian pre-service teachers to teach students with disabilities in regular classrooms. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant mean scores differences between the attitudes and self-efficacy of Pakistani and Australian prospective teachers towards inclusion....

Teacher self-efficacy relates to teacher's beliefs about his/her ability to bring about change in teaching situation. This study was conducted to measure the teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in relation to job variables: gender, job status, professional education, nature of job at school level. For this purpose 179 male and female school teachers we...

This study was carried out to find out the role of demographic variables in the development of efficacy beliefs of prospective teachers enrolled in a teacher education program towards inclusion. The sample consisted of 194 prospective teachers enrolled in a one-year teacher education program at a government university in Pakistan. A standardized in...

The study was carried out to identify the prospective teachers' beliefs regarding information seeking and responsible behaviour towards environment at postgraduate level. The main emphasis was in this study to measure the male and female prospective teachers' beliefs about information seeking and responsible behaviour towards environment among diff...

This study explains the development and validation of a questionnaire instrument to measure the self-efficacy beliefs of 180 in-service schoolteachers in Pakistan. Four dimensions of teacher self-efficacy were identified in the Pakistani context: classroom management, persistent behaviour, level of teacher anxiety and professional mastery. Validati...

This study explored the post graduate students' causal internal and external attribution regarding their success and failure in examination. It is based on Heider's attribution theory concerned with how the people attribute their own or others behaviors to certain set of behaving patterns. The purpose of the study was to measure the students' inter...

This study investigated the role of different school systems of Pakistan in the development of moral and social traits in students (i.e. honesty, tolerance, violence, respect for others and patriotism). It is perceived that Educational institutes are supposed to mould the personalities of students by capable and skilled teachers, curriculum, learni...