Abstract
In this era of globalization use of teaching kit play a vital role for the performance of students in primary education. Comparative research may help to assess the pace of project development, and explore the impediments for adopting timely remedial measures. This research aims to explore the effect of use of teaching kit in Community Model Schools and Govt. Girls Primary Schools. Community Model Schools set up under Girls Primary Education Project (GPEP), in 1994 and funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB), and comparison of their academic performance and use of teaching kit with Govt. Girls Primary Schools. The target population of the study comprised of all Community Model Schools and Govt. Girls Primary Schools in the Punjab in Pakistan. However, the accessible population was three fifty schools (175 Community Model Schools and 175 Govt. Girls Primary Schools) from thirty five districts of the Punjab. To see the effects of use teaching kit on academic performance of students, a sample from each district ten head mistresses, twenty teachers, ten administrators, one hundred students and one hundred parents were randomly selected. Documentary facts were used for seeing the effects of use teaching kit on academic performance of students in both types of schools, as well as a questionnaire of five point likert scale was designed to investigate and collect data about the students’ performance and effect of use teaching kit. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics as well as t-test to compare both types of schools at 0.05 level of significance. Results indicated that Community Model Schools are better in students’ performance due to the use teaching kit than Govt. Girls Primary Schools.
Keyword(s)
Teaching Kit, Performance of Students, primary level, Punjab