Effectiveness of School Teachers: A Critical Dimensional Analysis in Gender, Locality and Academic Stream Variation

The study was a comparative dimensional analysis of effectiveness of secondary school teachers in gender, locality and academic stream variations. This was a quantitative survey type research. All secondary school teachers under WBBSE in Balurgaht block were considered as the population. The data was collected by random selection of 171 teachers from different schools. in Balurghat block in Dakshin Dinajpur district. The sample constituted of 171 teachers including 97 (57%) male and 74 (43%) female teachers, 82 (48%) rural teachers and 89 (52%) urban teachers, 69 (40%) teachers from science stream and 102 (60%) teachers from arts stream. Tool adopted to collect the data was Teacher Effectiveness Scale (TES) by Kumar and Mutha (2011). The data were analyzed by calculating mean, standard deviation, and standard error. The nature of data has been checked by normal probability curve with histogram. The inference has been drawn by using t-test value comparing with critical value at 0.05 level. Result revealed that significance difference exists in the academic dimension (t=2.00, p=0.04), professional dimension (t=2.65, p=0.008), social dimension (t=3.19, p=0.001), and emotional dimension (t=2.38, p=0.01) of effectiveness across gender. It was also found from the study that significant difference exists in the professional dimension (t=2.78, p=0.005), emotional dimension (t=2.43, p=0.015), and personality dimension (t=2.60, p=0.009) of effectiveness across locale. Similarly, significant difference exists in the academic dimension (t=2.68, p=0.008), and moral dimension (t=3.21, p=0.001) of effectiveness across different academic stream. The significant differences were found in professional and emotional dimensions in gender variations as well as locale variations. Similarly, significant difference observed in academic dimension in gender variations and academic stream variations. The difference was observed in moral dimension in academic stream variations only. The effectiveness of teachers from science background in almost all the dimensions was comparatively lower than the teachers of arts background. Similarly, the male teachers were less effective than female counterparts, and urban teachers were less effective than rural teachers that were observed from the results in dimensional analysis of teacher’s effectiveness. So, school authority should take this into account and improve the commitment of science teachers and those teachers who belongs to urban area. The outcome of this research will be benefited to maintain the quality of teaching-learning process So, to build up a healthy society for sustainable future, we have required more effective teachers in the education system to preserve the quality.