Papers by Farhana khurshid
Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Blogs are widely used in education since their emergence particularly in higher education. This r... more Blogs are widely used in education since their emergence particularly in higher education. This research study investigated the use of educational blogs by students at university level. 100 male and female university students were the sample of this study. Data was collected through a questionnaire and focused group discussions. Descriptive statistics i.e., frequency and percentages, were calculated for the analysis of quantitative data and the qualitative data was analyzed through thematic analysis. The results of the study indicated that students used blogs to get educational ideas and communicate with other people. They used educational blogs and commented on relevant course related posts. In this way, students get knowledge of different subjects through blogs. Students and teachers also used educational blogs to get to know each other better by visiting and reading blogs. Educational blogs help teachers to teach and students to learn. It is suggested that at university and colle...
International Research Journal of Education and Innovation
World is experiencing major developments in its education system since the past two years due to ... more World is experiencing major developments in its education system since the past two years due to COVID-19. The e-learning came up as the only solution to sustain the education system during that period. But it questioned the teachers’ competence to deal with technology. Therefore, the need arouse to find out the teachers’ level of knowledge regarding integration of ICT into teaching and e-learning. Current study was planned to find out the teachers’ level of knowledge regarding ICT and e-learning. Sample of study were 251 secondary school teachers. They gave their response on the provided questionnaire. The study found that the teachers have advanced level of knowledge about the multiple technological tools and they also know about its usability. But the teachers are novice in the field of e-learning. The findings suggest that there is a need to first train the teachers so they may be able to utilize ICT for e-learning in classroom practices.
Bulletin of Education and Research, Aug 1, 2020
This study was conducted to explore the e-pedagogical skills of Instructors essential for online ... more This study was conducted to explore the e-pedagogical skills of Instructors essential for online teaching. Online education is an emerging concept in Pakistan. Online education is a planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching, and as a result it requires special skills for course design, instructions, and special methods of communication through technology. The main objective of the study was to provide a description of those pedagogical skills which were mandatory for online Instructors to teach their courses effectively. A sample of 38 Instructors was purposively selected from the Allama Iqbal Open University, and the Virtual University of Pakistan. These Instructorswere asked about their instructional responsibilities, method of teaching, the technology and online resources they used, and their assessment practices of students' learning. Research instrument of the study was a questionnaire having three point Likert scale type questions, and two open-ended questions. The results of both quantitative and qualitative data indicated that teaching online courses is not the same as face-to-face teaching. The Instructor requires a set of e-pedagogical skills to teach online courses. Online Instructors require a special set of e-pedagogical skills to teach online courses.
Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences, 2020
Self- regulated learning skills (SRL) are deemed essential for survival in the 21st century and s... more Self- regulated learning skills (SRL) are deemed essential for survival in the 21st century and should bedeveloped among students by providing the opportunities of beyond school connectivity (Broadbent 2018;Uzun & Uz, 2017). The current study is a case study of Edopia School, utilizing the Learning Management System(LMS) and face-to-face interaction in an aim to develop SRL skills among students. Therefore, this researchwas conducted to find out the level of the SRL skills among the students and record their views about theprovision of LMS for beyond school connectivity and its role in the development of SRL skills. MotivatedStrategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) was administered to assess the level of SRL skills followed byfocus group discussions to gather views of the students. It was found that LMS helped the learners indeveloping SRL skills with a mean score of 5.45, 5.7, and 5.5 on three components of MSLQ. During the focusgroup, discussion students highlighted the learni...
Pakistan Journal of Education, 2020
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is considered a key requirement for learners as it... more Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is considered a key requirement for learners as it augments their learning. This study investigated the effectiveness of utilising educational videos and games into teaching for better understanding and concept clarity of students in the subject of Social Studies. This experimental study was conducted in two Government Secondary schools, for four weeks on a sample size of fifty-eight students of class eight. Different topics from Social Studies subject were taught to the sample with the help of educational videos and games. The difference between the concept understanding of control and experimental group students was calculated through t-tests. The significant values of t-tests(0.00) and effect size(r=0.96) indicated that teaching through educational videos and games helped students in better way for their clarity of abstract and complex concepts of Social Studies subject. In the focus group discussion, students mentioned that teaching...
11th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
Education plays an important role in the lives of individuals. Education helps the individuals in... more Education plays an important role in the lives of individuals. Education helps the individuals in developing skills, capabilities, attitudes and behavior (Saleem & Shah, 2015). In developing countries like Pakistan access towards education is not satisfactory. In Pakistan, at the higher education, arts subjects generally and science subjects particularly are not with in the access of rural people. Because there are very few colleges in rural areas, and these colleges have shortage of subject specialist faculty. The available faculty is only for teaching compulsory courses and limited option of humanities group courses. As a result, the rural communities are deprived from their basic right of getting education and unable to utilize their potential in their areas of interest. Connected classroom is one of the technological innovation that can be used to overcome the shortage of teaching faculty issue in rural areas. Connected classrooms are created by using new technology tools to bui...
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Current study intended to identify teachers’ level of knowledge and ICT use into pedagogy at seco... more Current study intended to identify teachers’ level of knowledge and ICT use into pedagogy at secondary level. It was a mixed method study. Quantitative data were collected from 100 teachers of secondary schools Rawalpindi. Descriptive statistics was applied and results were found out through percentage, mean, frequency and standard deviation. Interviews were also conducted with the secondary school teachers. Quantitative data revealed that teachers use only those ICT tools in which they have adequate level of knowledge. Qualitative data also backed these results and highlighted that teachers’ lack knowledge in ICT tools therefore they don't utilize them. They demand administrative support and need-based training in the development of ICT skills and knowledge. It is recommended that ICT integration in the field of education needs greater consideration than it is receiving. Teachers’ fewer knowledge in area of ICT depicted the need of enhancing their level of knowledge regarding a...
The aim of the study is to see the impact of ability grouping on science performance of the stude... more The aim of the study is to see the impact of ability grouping on science performance of the students at primary level. The variables included in this research are classroom setting both homogeneous and heterogeneous, (independent variable) and science performance (dependent variable). Population of the study included 5 th grade students of Federal Government Schools in Rawalpindi (Pakistan). The sample is the 5 th grade students and sample size is 48 students. The design of the study is experimental. Before teaching pre-test is conducted to check the prerequisite knowledge of the students included in both groups and then both groups are taught in different types of classroom settings. Experimental group is taught in homogeneously grouped classes and they are divided in three groups, high achievers, average students and low achievers, and all these groups are instructed in three different classes and control group is taught in mixed ability setup. After teaching the module States of ...
A curriculum is all the experiences that an individual has in the course of living. Television me... more A curriculum is all the experiences that an individual has in the course of living. Television media, the most important component of the societal curriculum has been receiving increasing scholarly attention. It has become an integral part of our lives and portrays our religious, cultural and societal norms and practices. This study explores the effects of television media as a source of informal curriculum on the social and religious value practices in Pakistani society. For the study, mixed methods were utilised whereby the quantitative data was collected through a five point Likert scale questionnaire from 100 students selected purposively from four universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. In addition, three focus group discussions were conducted with 15 students (five students each group), yielding the qualitative data. The findings of the study indicate that television has a strong influence, specifically; the way dramas, news and advertisements are presented. This has brought...
Recently, it is an increasing agreement in social sciences that experiences to violent media enha... more Recently, it is an increasing agreement in social sciences that experiences to violent media enhances violent behavior (Anderson, Shibuya, Ihori, Swing, Bushman, Sakamoto, & Saleem, 2010).The main purpose of the study was to examine and observe the impact of Violent Video Games on learners behavior in the classroom. It is harmfully effecting on the behavior of students at secondary school level. A mixed method research design was adopted for this study. The target population of this study was the secondary schools of Rawalpindi. Sixty eight students were conveniently selected from five secondary schools of Rawalpindi city. A five point Likert scale type questionnaire was used to collect the quantitative data. The questionnaire was consisted of Twenty one items. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Semistructured interviews were conducted with five secondary school teachers. Interview guide consisted of fourteen questions. Quantitative data was analyzed ...
Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment is an innovative and verified pedagogical method for mat... more Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment is an innovative and verified pedagogical method for mathematics and science instruction using clickers as a tool to achieve learning gains. Question-based instruction, dialogical discourse, formative assessment, and meta-level communication are the four main rules on which this Classroom Response System (clickers) based pedagogy is constructed. An iterative question cycle helps in executing these principles in the classroom. Non-equivalent comparison group quasi-experimental design was applied on a sample of 183 participants. These participants were taken from two urban high schools (i.e., boys and girls). This intervention lasted for eight weeks. The study members comprised 42 females and 47 males in the experimental group. 54 females and 40 males were in the control group of the 8th mathematics class. Multiple choice questions-based achievement test (both Pre and Post-intervention) was administered to both groups at the same time. The resu...
Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences
Instructors’ demographic variables plays an important role in their teaching competencies for qua... more Instructors’ demographic variables plays an important role in their teaching competencies for quality instruction (Aramide, Ladipo, & Adebayo, 2015). The demographic variables includes instructors’ qualification, age, years of teaching experience, and the number of professional training attended. The main aim of this research was to identify the influence of demographic variables on the teaching competencies of the instructors, teaching in online learning environment. The ‘online teaching competencies (OTCs) matrix was utilized as theoretical framework for current research. This study was conducted in the three universities of Pakistan those who are offering online programs and courses to their students. The sample of the study consisted of 250 instructors, teaching in online learning environment. Data was collected through a Five-point Likert scale questionnaire developed by Bigatel, Ragan, Kennan, May, & Redmond (2012). Multiple regression analysis was applied to analyze the dat...
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