Correlation between Capacity Development of Teachers and Academic Performance of Students at Primary level

Abstract

The trainings of the teachers are the basic and essential need of our education sector in Pakistan. Major objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between the capacity building of teachers and academic achievement of students at primary level, and to identify the effects of capacity building of the teachers on the academic achievement of students, As the study was descriptive in nature therefore survey research design was chosen to achieve these objectives. Primary school teachers of district Multan were delimited for the study. The questionnaire which consisted of 30 statements were used as research tool after validation of the tool data were collected from 281 male and  female PSTs selected through stratified random sampling technique. Statistical techniques:  percentage, mean,

t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Pearson correlation coefficient  were used to find out the relationship between the capacity building of teachers and academic achievement of students. Results revealed that capacity building has effects on the pedagogical skills of the teachers and has great impact on the personality and skills  of teachers as well as academic performance  of students Results showed that capacity building enhances the classroom management skills of the teacher and it has great impact on the academic achievements of students. Results of correlations depicted that there is significant difference between teacher’s capacity building and students’ academic achievement.