Vijay GroverDAV College of Education, Abohar, India · Education
Vijay Grover
MSc Hons. Chem, MSc CS, MA Eng. PhD (Edu.)
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
February 2000 - present
Position
- Teacher Educator
Description
- work for M. Ed degree research projects as well as independent projects
February 2000 - present
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- I teach at bachelor and master level degrees in education
February 2000 - June 2016
DAV College of Education, Abohar, India
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Education
May 1987 - May 1991
Publications
Publications (57)
The paper is about assessment of attitudes of teachers supporting English as a device of inclusion for learners as secondary school stage. Investigator named this as inclusive attitudes in respect of English as medium of instruction. Study falls in the category of survey type. Hundred teachers were selected as participants due to the fact, based on...
The paper unfolds an investigation of influence of attitudinal orientations of secondary school teachers in respect of teaching on their perceptions regarding difficult behaviour of adolescent learners. Study was divided in two phases- first extracting of factors of the concept difficult behaviours (using ipsative choice method and Q-type factor an...
This paper is about improving effectiveness of the classroom beyond the normal efforts of content, methods and methodology. It is about missing communication between teacher and learner/s. this break of communication is by virtue of two major factors- Learner’s isolation and teacher’s insulation. Here isolation of learner is taken other than result...
Cybernetics is not a new invention but its potential for application has not exhausted even after nearly
seventy years of its origin. It started with idea of automation and control in the electrical and mechanical systems,
but later on extended to biological, social systems and learning systems. Present paper is about application of
cybernetics in...
The paper is about Vedic practice of Svādhyāya. It’s not simply a practice but a complete philosophy which ensures person’s complete development. Svādhyāya has two fold meaning- self-study and study of self. Self-study explains the learner about external world whereas study of self is study of one’s inner-self. Paper starts with defining the terms...
This investigation is an attempt to assess indicators of „qualityschool education using
Stephenson‟s Q-methodology designed to deal with subjective issues like one under
investigation. Methodology is alternative of R-methodology which deals with objective issues
and highly relies on quantitative analysis. In procedure of Q-methodology it is inter-p...
As we know higher education is now becoming a purchasable commodity, issue of quality and accountability are bound to come in to picture. Quality is what the customer feels about a product or a service. The paper is an attempt to understand the customer’s point of view regarding quality higher education. As the subject is of subjective nature autho...
This paper is an attempt to deal with issue of teacher’s perceptions regarding secondary school
students’ irritating behaviors. As the issue is of subjective nature, investigator thought to employ Qmethodology
developed by William Stephenson (1902-1989). Methodology is contrast of Rmethodology
which is instrument of positivistic research. In Q-meth...
The paper is an attempt to explore teacher and his job assignment beyond the realm of duty as in case of
any other job. It is also beyond the simple accountability for learner’s progress. Rather teacher needs to
think in terms of attitudes and personality building besides academic performance. For making it possible
he needs to lead from front as a...
BEST PRACTICES FOR TRANSFER OF TRAINING IN TEACHER
EDUCATION AS PERCEIVED BY TEACHER TRAINEES AND
TEACHER EDUCATORS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
This paper is devoted to investigate best practices for transfer of training as perceived by teacher trainees. It is thought that it would be best to study the subject from point of view of customer of the service. An opinionnaire was developed and standardised which could be scored for preference on different training practices as perceived by the...
This investigation is intended to find relationship between educational attitudes (progressivism and traditionalism) and personality orientations (self-directed, social and activity-directed) and mindset (fixed vs. growth). The relation finding was aimed to find any utility of such relation in designing learning and teaching for better learning out...
The paper is an investigation of
relatedness between philosophical
orientations and attitudinal
valences of secondary school
teachers. Investigator developed
and standardized the philosophical
orientation measure adapted from
scale developed by Thomas G Ryan,
2008. Other scale for attitudinal
assessment was developed on the
basis of Kerlinger’s (19...
This paper is an attempt to deal with issue of teacher's accountability for learning outcomes of the learner. As the issue is of subjective nature, investigator thought to employ Q methodology developed by William Stephenson (1902 - 1989) . Methodology is alternative of R methodology which deals with positivistic research. In case of Q methodology...
Paper attempts to find relation between information asymmetry and customer dissatisfaction among
parents of secondary school students. The measures used for data collection were developed by the
investigator himself. Findings are based on percentage analysis and correlation analysis. Percentage
analysis was intended to explain the magnitude of the...
This paper is about investigating best teacher training practices as perceived by service providers
(teacher educators). It is thought that it would be best to study the subject from point of view of
practitioners in the field. An opinionnaire was developed and standardised which could be scored for
preference on different training practices as per...
The paper is a survey type study estimating relatedness between cognitive resilience and hardiness across different social value orientations among adolescents. The study was undertaken with presumption that these variables must have some connection and should be influenced by social value orientation. Participants for the study were one hundred ad...
Paper attempts to find relation between information asymmetry and customer dissatisfaction among students of public schools. Author himself developed two measures (Information asymmetry & Customer dissatisfaction) for data collection. Data was analyzed in terms of percentage and correlation analysis. Percentage analysis was aimed at determining mag...
The paper is about demonstrating the method of content analysis by using story as the subject of research. It is about story of a nearly forty year old lady abused in his marital relation. She narrates her whole story which author divided in to segments of significance and reflections are drawn from the corresponding to it. The reflections are then...
The paper is an attempt to examine the intrusion of technology in our privacy as it is social as well as legal right in all the civilized societies in one form or other. Paper explains the concept of privacy, its form and content in information age and its difference from privacy and security. With the intellectual development of mankind human bein...
This paper is about assessment of relatedness between attitude of post graduate
students towards mouse clock plagiarism and their personality orientation and ethical
positioning. Personality orientation has been categorised in to power, people, perfection and
peace whereas ethical positioning is characterised by idealistic and relativistic orientat...
Paper attempts to bring the idea of teachable moments to be a serious part of school teaching. Teachable moments are unplanned seized opportunities for teaching important aspects related to learning contents, social and moral concepts. Author highlights why we need to tap teachable moments for the sake of exploring different dimensions of the conce...
This paper attempts to explain how mindfulness is necessary for psychological
wellbeing of a teacher. It starts with explain general well being followed by psychological
wellbeing, then importance of psychological wellbeing at school, especially for a teacher. Then
mindfulness has been explained in terms of intentional, accepting and non-judgmental...
The paper attempts to explain the concept of Glass Ceiling which is outcome of
phenomenon of Gender bias. It is a situation when a woman is held back rom reaching
the higher echelons of power in the organizational. Author believes it is by virtue of
gender bias in history, education, social behavior, and organizational polices. History
reveals coun...
In recent times inclusion is the most acceptable mode of education for a special education. But due to variety of disabilities and further variations in a disability makes it extremely difficult to design format of inclusion. There is need to have different inclusion modalities which could be suited for special child varying in terms of type of dis...
The paper is regarding seven social sin pointed out by Mahatma Gandhi which he
considered as enemies of humanity and eating away the spirit in the body. These seven sins are
Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without
morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without...
The article is about assessment is about assessment of readability of a text as assessed on technical ground. There are number of formulae developed for assessment of readability of the text. The paper concludes with synthesis narrating some general thumb rules for better writing of text. Finally paper concludes with possible benefits of readable w...
Paper is a celebration of the pioneer work of Wing and Gould (1979), who broke many myths about autism and dissolved the line of division between two camps of leading researchers Leo Kanner and Asperger regarding concept of autism. They observed there are three domains of deficit named as 'triad of impairments' namely-social interaction, communicat...
The paper attempts to explain different possible research approaches to pursue a
research project. It starts with three important components of a research approach namelyphilosophical world view, research design, and research methods. Research approaches are
classified on the basis of work of Guba (1990), which puts it in to the categories of post...
Paper is an attempt to highlight the menace of domestic violence. Paper starts with building the issue
through some real narrations of the victims of the domestic violence. Stories are from across the
countries and societies which points out that menace is prevalent among all the societies irrespective of
all sorts of variations. Also there are num...
Brain based teaching is a strategy based on structure, working, functional strategy
and coordination mode. Author discusses it in terms of some principals designed on the basis of
the above said elements. These principles include- Brain is like a parallel processor, Learning
engages the whole body, brain perceives whole and parts simultaneous, brai...
The paper is an attempt to highlight the impact of social skills deficit in an autistic child. Paper starts with explaining concept of autism and characteristic symptoms of autism. Autism involves triad of symptoms -social skills deficit, communication skills deficit and repetitive or stereotype behavior. But social skills deficit is root cause of...
The paper is about concept and utility of theory of mind for
classroom learning. Although the concept was originated with study of
autism, but author finds its utility even with normal children.
Introductory part of the paper elaborates justification of existence of
theory of mind its origin and concept. Further theoretical perspective of
theory of...
The paper is about evaluating theory of mind for explaining autism and a challenge
posed to its validity by reality ofautistic savants. Paper explains symptoms ofautism in terms of
triad behaviours of lack of communication, social abilities and imagination followed by
explanations proposed by theory of mind in terms operational term called mentalis...
The paper is an attempt to understand gender bias in the organizations. It explains first generation and
second generation, gender bias in terms of visible and invisible barriers respectively. As first generation
bias denies equality in terms of existence second generation gender bias holds the woman back from
reaching the higher echelons of power....
The paper is about highlighting phenomenon of ‘savant syndrome’ among autistic children. Author starts with defining and
explaining the term autism as viewed in special education followed by ‘theory of mind’ as an attempt to explain autism. Then author
puts forward case of ‘idiot savants’, more accurately ‘autistic savants’ as a contradiction to th...
Paper is about tips to teacher for educating an autistic child. Paper starts with explaining concept of autism spectrum distinguishing autism from Asperger syndrome and PDD-NOS. autism has been explained in terms of lack of social, communication and imagination skills. Author elaborates help teacher can provide to the autistic child in the domains...
The paper is an attempt to understand significant factors involved in parent teacher communication as perceived by teachers. Various neutral types of items which could be possible enabling or disabling factors were responded to by teachers and put to cluster analysis. Analysis revealed factors which could be enabling and others as disabling in natu...
This paper is an attempt to discover factors involved in parent teacher
communication as perceived by parents. Various neutral types of items which could be
possibly enabling or disabling factors were responded to by parents and put to cluster
analysis. Cluster analysis revealed factors generated from proposed items. Analysis
revealed neutral facto...
Paper is an attempt to discover factors involved in parent teacher
communication as perceived by both parents and teachers. The objective has been
achieved by using neutral types of items which could be possibly enabling or disabling
factors were responded to by teachers and parents and put to cluster analysis. Cluster
analysis revealed factors gen...
Abstract:-T eaching is a profession where both performer and performance equally
matters. The paper is an attempt to combine teacher and teaching termed here as
personality and professionality . Personality is a complex entity but felt very easily
by behaviour of the concerned person. Many theories have been put forward by
social scientists to...
The paper is an attempt to study the attitudes of secondary school students towards feedback offered by teacher on errors in written work. It is assumed that remarks by teacher on notebook have significant potential to generate substance of attitude. Investigator constructed and standardized attitude measure using cluster analysis method and discov...
The paper attempts to conceptualize and analyze the concept of intellectual inertia due to absence of a genuine definition. The term is less prevalent in education literature, rather crystalizing through internet based discussions, but of significant value. Intellectual inertia is an analogy of a physics entity known as inertia of matter. Intellect...
The paper is about highlighting importance and process of relation building for effective teaching at all stages of learning. Building relation is pre requisite for learning to take place. It is responsibility of teacher to build teacher-taught relation with qualities like developing trust, shunning ego and selfishness, leaving aside jealousy, and...
A system is called system because it produces an output which is different, superior and more valued than the input. But if does not happens we call it a failed system or no system. A system fails when it does not improve continuously. Feedback is the inbuilt tool of a system for continuous improvement. We may call it as internal accountability of...
Education ABSTRACT The paper is an introduction and application of R and Q methodologies to deal with social science research problems. Both R & Q methodologies have merits and limitations in their operation, but author proposes a triangulation method to blend the advantages of both the methodologies. Q-Methodology could be seen as replacement of q...
Paper revolves around justifying ‘transition state’ state strategy even if it is slow progress,
instead of waiting for perfect sate to perform well. Further, paper suggests attaining this
transition state in teacher education is only possible by gearing up our infrastructure, planning,
policing, and administration and teacher educators. Dynamic nat...
The paper explores the solution of stress experienced b learners at school. It explains the concept
of stress in terms of two dimensions called as ability and amount dimensions. It points out that some stress is always needed to elevate the performance level of a person. This stress is termed as eustress (positive stress) and the reverse of it is d...
The paper is about how inclusive education can be turned into reality through inclusive planning. It focuses on planning of disability as well as disable; it is something like personality and person. Disability planning revolves around planning in terms of less restricted architecture, curriculum, and administration and budgeting. The disable plann...
The paper is about advocating usefulness of the social media as educational too at the same time warns against the dangers of unguided and unsupervised access of learners to the social networking sites. Social media can't be ignored as it has become part of daily routine of more than ninety percent young students. These sites have some unique chara...
The paper explores the solution of stress experienced b learners at school. It explains the concept
of stress in terms of two dimensions called as ability and amount dimensions. It points out that some stress is
always needed to elevate the performance level of a person. This stress is termed as eustress (positive stress)
and the reverse of it is d...
It is a technique based study in which Stephenson's Q-Methodology has been applied to find the factorial structures of teaching behaviours exhibited by teacher at secondary stage. The methodology is one of the best techniques for objective assessment of subjective concepts as one under investigation. The procedure involves sorting of statements reg...
With the trend of innovative methods and giving due importance to subjective
issues in educational research people started for looking the constructs of subjective
termslike education, quality education, teacher effectiveness, teacher behaviour and
the like. It is now being thought that dealing such problems with quantitative or
qualitative researc...
The paper explains the concept of blended learning as the middle path between two
extremes of various dimensions of teaching learning process in context of higher
education. Thepaper examines the prerequisites for implementation of blended
learning in higher education. It stresses the need of user-friendly multimedia
technology along with permissiv...
The study is technique based involving Q-methodology invented by William
Stephenson (1902-1989), a favourite student of Spearman. The methodology aims at
discovering objective meaning of subjective perceptions of the participants regarding as
issue, as one is under investigation. Different teachers have different perceptions regarding
difficult beh...
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It is believed that first a teacher should make relation with pupil only then learning can proceed. I am interested to know strategies, techniques or methods by which teacher can build relation with students. Also at secondary school stage where students are of adolescent age, there need be a limit to what relation should be build with student, what is your point of view in this regard?
In almost all the countries around the world traditional as well as modern educational is becoming a salable commodity. Unfortunately, higher education in particularly becoming out of reach for a common man, what to talk about a poor man. Why it is so? Everybody deserve to acquire knowledge.
There are number of qualities endorsed by educationists for teacher to be a real teacher. These qualities help a teacher to perform efficiently, but the ultimate thing for a teacher is inspiring his/her students. I am interested to know what few qualities would you suggest teacher should display to inspire his/her students.
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Now it is debatable and relevant question that have biological differences effect different factors of Multiple Intelligence?
