Papers by shabana manzoor
Journal Article, 2024
The 2030 Agenda placed significant emphasis on women's empowerment, asserting that it would prope... more The 2030 Agenda placed significant emphasis on women's empowerment, asserting that it would propel the achievement of all sustainable development targets and objectives. Due to the significance of the subject matter, this article investigates the correlation between education for sustainable development and women's empowerment in Islamabad, Pakistan, through an analysis of the literacy rates, occupational classifications, and residential areas of employed women in the city. This qualitative study develops interpretively from the perspective of feminist research. Eight health and education professionals were enlisted for multistage sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, information was gathered and analyzed using thematic content analysis. The results demonstrated that working increased the socioeconomic empowerment of participants in comparison to not working. Health care professionals exhibited this tendency less frequently than education personnel. Pakistan requires more educated women for the empowerment of women and sustainable development, according to the findings.
Journal on Educational Technology, 2020
This study investigates the students’ perceptions regarding their voices towards improvement in l... more This study investigates the students’ perceptions regarding their voices towards improvement in learning at public and private sector universities in Pakistan. These voices are collected by the Quality Enhancement Cells of the varsities through either technological tools or other ways. To understand how this data is utilized, a self-constructed and validated tool was utilized to get information about four categories; understanding of the term student voices, inquiry of learning process; university facilitation for best learning and implementation of student voices. Using purposive sampling technique, a survey of 112 under graduate students from four fields of studies (social sciences, natural sciences, business administrations and languages) from a Public and Private Sector University each from District Lahore was conducted. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 22, and t-test and chi-square was performed to measure the difference in institutional facilitation of public and privat...
World Journal on Educational Technology, Oct 30, 2020
This study investigates the students' perceptions regarding their voices towards improvement in l... more This study investigates the students' perceptions regarding their voices towards improvement in learning at public and private sector universities in Pakistan. These voices are collected by the Quality Enhancement Cells of the varsities through either technological tools or other ways. To understand how this data is utilized, a self-constructed and validated tool was utilized to get information about four categories; understanding of the term student voices, inquiry of learning process; university facilitation for best learning and implementation of student voices. Using purposive sampling technique, a survey of 112 under graduate students from four fields of studies (social sciences, natural sciences, business administrations and languages) from a Public and Private Sector University each from District Lahore was conducted. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 22, and t-test and chi-square was performed to measure the difference in institutional facilitation of public and private sector universities. One-way ANOVA was applied to check the effects of student's status in the class on the inquiry of learning process. The study indicated statistically significant effect of public and private sector on students' perceptions regarding institutional facilitations for learning improvement. The study also reported the significant effects of student's status on the inquiry of learning process. It is suggested that further studies need to explore how and where the students' voices are being used for planning, assessment and course development.
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A survey method was used to investigate the effect of online math education and students anxiety ... more A survey method was used to investigate the effect of online math education and students anxiety of learning Mathematics in COVID-19 at university level in Lahore. The basic purpose to design this study was to explore students’ anxiety measures and introduce some coping strategies to minimize the students’ anxiety in online learning math education. All students of graduate and post-graduate level in all public and private universities of Lahore were considered as population of the study. By using convenient sampling technique 500 students were selected from 4 public and 4 private universities. A standardized instrument ‘Mathematics Anxiety Scale’ was adapted after validity and reliability tests. The results showed a strong positive relationship between online Math education and students’ anxiety of learning mathematics. The online math education has statistically significance variance on students’ anxiety of learning mathematics. Therefore, a significant medium effect size was found...
Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
The present study aims to determine the major differences in student’s opinions towards formative... more The present study aims to determine the major differences in student’s opinions towards formative assessment across universities. The study also wanted to understand the university teacher’s perception and their role in implementing the formative assessment in their classroom and to see the university teacher’s perception towards the impact of usefulness of formative assessment. The study used quantitative research design. Data was collected from four hundred students and one hundred teachers from four different universities of Lahore by using simple random sampling technique. An adapted form of survey tools were used to collect information from the study participants. The data was analyzed by using Descriptive analysis, Frequencies, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Frequencies were used to examine the high and medium perceived statements by the teachers and students. The results reported statistically significant difference in perceptions of students among four univ...
Global Social Sciences Review
This research was undertaken to investigate the problems teachers experience in ECE assessment. A... more This research was undertaken to investigate the problems teachers experience in ECE assessment. A qualitative research design with semi-structured interviewing was undertaken. The study's intent was to identify the assessment techniques used by ECE teachers to assess their students' learning during class. All primary level private schools in urban areas of Lahore were considered as the population of the study. Ten ECE teachers were selected by using a purposive sampling technique from the private school sector of Lahore.The data was analyzed through thematic analysis by using open and axial coding techniques. The major findings were that teachers used different assessments such as small class tasks, question answer techniques and observational techniques. The study revealed that the major issues teachers in ECE assessment were facing were students' individual differences, their level of understanding, their family background and lack of resources.
sjesr, 2020
This correlational study has been conducted to establish association among students’ personality ... more This correlational study has been conducted to establish association among students’ personality traits; extraversion, agreeableness and their preferred learning styles at Higher Education. From province Punjab, all public university students were the population of the study. Total one thousand participants were engaged randomly for administering ‘NEO-BFI’ developed by Costa and McCrae (2010) and LSI inventory by Kolb and Kolb, (2005) simultaneously. Both instruments are standardized having 44-items, for measuring personality traits and the other having 10 factors, for measuring learning styles respectively. Pearson correlation coefficient was applied to analyze data for finding out the relationship between traits of personality and styles of learning. The results brought to light the fact that assimilating is the most preferred learning style of extraverts. Whereas assimilating, accommodating and diverging learning styles are preferred by students having agreeableness personality t...
EDULEARN16 Proceedings, 2016
Pakistan Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2019
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