Comparative Study On University Teachers’ Attitude Towards Weak and Bright Students

Abstract

Teachers’ attitude and instructional style has its influence on learners’ character, learning and their educational achievement. The main purpose of the study was to explore the attitude of university teachers towards weak and bright students based on four categories of professional, reinforcement, interaction and attention aspects of teachers’ attitude. Population of this study consisted of all university students. The target population was the weak and bright students of four universities of Islamabad enrolled in BS and Masters Programs of Business Administration, Economics and Computer Science. Program wise target population for four universities were identified as 10420 students. For sample selection, program wise results of previous semester were collected from respective departments and list was arranged from highest to lowest CGPA obtained by students. Five percent top bright students and five percent bottom weak students from each category were considered within sample. Finally, a sample of 1042 students was available for conduct of research. Self-developed questionnaire consisted of 33 items based on four categories of teachers’ attitude was used. To access the validity and reliability different experts were involved in this pilot testing process. The collected data was analyzed through mean, standard deviations, F, t- test. The results of the study highlighted teachers have unequal treatment with the weak and bright students. Suggestions were given in the light of the findings.