LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Exploring the Preferences of Biological Needs of the Secondary School Students

Abdul Ghafoor Nasir and Muhammad Mirza, Ph.D.

Abstract

The focus of the study was upon the identification of students’ biological needs that may influence curriculum development. The identification of students’ biological needs would be beneficial in a number of ways to all those who were involved in curriculum planning, curriculum material production, curriculum development, administrative and supervisory functions, etc.

The present study was designed to identify the Preferences of Biological Needs of students of ages of 14+ to 16+ years that may influence curriculum development for classes (IX & X) of the schools located in the district Faisalabad. The data were collected from 10% of students of urban & rural secondary schools. So the total strength of students of sample of urban secondary schools was 248 and rural secondary school was 198. The total strength of students of the sample was 446. Questionnaires were used as research instruments. The respondents were to respond to a series of 15 items by indicating their level of satisfaction on a five point scale. The samples were randomly selected. Since there was a lack of an adequate instrument to measure the importance, existence, availability or non-availability of students’ needs, a self-Reporting rating scale (SRRS) was developed. This instrument included items constructed on the basis of Likert scale. This measure was to ask the respondents to respond to a series of 20 items by indicating their level of satisfaction on a five point scale from “Strongly agree” to strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”.

Keyword: Exploring the preferences of Biological Needs, curriculum development.

Introduction

It is a reality that in other countries, the researchers, psychologists and educationists have gone deep to explore the potentials of variety of needs. But in Pakistan, neither any commission on national education nor any education policy proposed or recommended research studies to assess and identify the student needs, wants, urges, aims and motives, etc. As there is no authentic information on needs that could be included in curriculum, all curricula have lost their values and slowed down the achievement of educational objectives.

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Abdul Ghafoor Nasir
Government Higher Secondary School
452 / G. B. Faisalabad
Pakistan
ghafoornasir@yahoo.com

Muhammad Mirza, Ph.D.
Professor of Education (Retired)
Government College of Education for Men
Lahore
Pakistan
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