Teaching Aptitude of School Teachers: A Gender-Based Comparison

Abstract

Teaching aptitude of school teachers is an important factor in making the teaching profession more effective. This research study was carried out for comparison of female teachers’ aptitude of teaching with male teachers of three districts Multan, Khanewal and Muzaffar Garh. The key objective of this research study was to analyze the teaching aptitude of female and male school teachers. The present study includes the sample of 350 teachers including 178 female school teachers and 1172 male elementary and secondary school teachers by using simple random sampling technique. A standardized Teaching Aptitude Test is used as a research instrument for the measurement of aptitudes of male and female teachers. Z-test was applied to compare the aptitude of teaching for female and male school teachers. Data analysis revealed that the significant difference is not found between the teaching aptitude of female and male school teachers. The study recommends to administer aptitude test at the time of selection of teachers to appoint those teachers for teaching profession who have high level of teaching aptitude