LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Exploring the Preferences of Knowledge & Understanding Needs of Secondary School Students

Abdul Ghafoor Nasir and Muhammad Mirza, Ph.D.

Abstract

The present study was designed to identify the Preferences of Knowledge & Understanding needs of students of ages of 14+ to 16+ year 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. Because there was no 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”.

Keywords: Exploring the preferences of knowledge & understanding needs, curriculum development.

Introduction

To derive a set of student’s preferences of knowledge & understanding needs for the study, researchers drew from a variety of studies and psychological theories. A list is given below:

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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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