Analysis of Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Secondary School Science Teachers in Students’ Perspective
Abstract
This research study was conducted with an objective to analyze the Pedagogical content knowledge of Physics teachers in students’ perspective. The sample of the study was comprised of 710 9th grade Physics students selected from 30 different schools of the Hazara division. Data were collected with the help of researcher made questionnaire. Analysis of data revealed that Physics teachers of the sample had high level in the pedagogical content knowledge of student difficulties, curriculum, assessment and teaching strategies/OTS. But the following deficiencies were highlighted by the students in the teaching of Physics teachers. Physics teachers do not consider the difference in intelligence level of students during their teaching. Physics teachers solve all numerical questions. Physics teachers use limited variety of examples and very much limited from daily life and during the class of Physics, the only activity of students is listening carefully because they mostly use lecture method
Authors
Ihtisham Ali
Ph. D Scholar, Department of Education, Hazara University Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah
Chairman, Department of Education, Hazara University Mansehra, KP, Pakistan