A STUDY OF TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH REFERENCE TO CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES

The present study was undertaken to find out the effectiveness of secondary school teachers. The study also aimed to find out whether gender and types of habitation influenced their effectiveness. Descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. A total of 200 secondary school teachers were included in the study. Stratified random sampling technique was used for sample selection. 100 teachers working in schools of rural area and 100 teachers working in schools of urban area were selected. Care has been taken to select equal number of male and female teachers i.e. 100 from each. Teacher effectiveness scale was used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed by employing statistical techniques like mean, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA. Result revealed that there was no significant difference in the teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers with respect to gender, however significant difference was found with respect to their habitation. It was also found that gender does not put significant effect but types of habitation puts significant effects on teacher effectiveness. As per as interaction effect of gender and types of habitation is concerned, it puts significant effect on the teacher effectiveness.