EVALUATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING PERFORMANCE OF IN-SERVICE PROMOTED SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN KHYBER PUKHTUNKHWA (PAKISTAN)

Secondary school teachers occupies the most important and crucial position in any educational system. The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the teaching performance of the in-service promoted secondary school teachers in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (Pakistan). The study has explored the teaching performance and attitudes of the promontory secondary school teachers. The main objectives of the study were; to evaluate the teaching performance of the in-service promoted secondary school teachers and to find out the week and strong points of the teaching performance of the in-service promoted secondary school teachers. All the students at secondary school level in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa constituted the population of the research study. Only 4650 (@25% of total) students of science group at secondary school level were selected randomly as a sample in 12 districts out of 24 districts of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province (Pakistan) i.e. Mardan, Nowshera, Peshawar, Kohistan, Bannu, Swabi, Bunner, Karak, Abbottabad, Malakand, D.I.Khan and Lakki Marwat. The study was descriptive in nature. A questionnaire was developed as a research instrument for the collection of data. After analysis of data, the researchers arrived at results that the teaching performance of in-service promoted secondary school teachers is very poor. It was found that majority of the in-service promoted school teachers have no knowledge of teaching methods. They have no subject mastery and majority of the students were not satisfied with their teaching methods. It was also found that they do not use technology in teaching learning process. In nutshell, it came to surface that their overall teaching performance was nil and zero.