Impacts of Teacher Educators’ Gender on their Perceptions Regarding Their Teaching Online Classes in Teacher Education Institutions in Sindh
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This research intends to investigate the impact of Impacts of Teacher Educators’ Gender on their Perceptions Regarding Their Online Teaching to the distant Classes of prospective teachers enrolled in T E I in Sindh province. to meet the intent of the study the researcher first formulated the objectives and then formulated two hypothesis based on the goals to compare the opinions of the male teacher educators with the opinions of the female teacher educators in following the variables carefully chosen to estimate their attitudes towards the online courses for teaching the teachers. The focus of the study was causal comparison, where researcher looked at the effect of an existing variable of teacher educators’ gender on teacher educators’ attitude as a dependent variable. The research design for the research was survey. Quantitative approach was the chosen for conducting the study. Research instrument for the study was a perception questionnaire based on five points Likert Scale for collecting the facts. Teacher Educators who were teaching in TEIs in Karachi was the population of the study. One of the probability techniques was adopted that is simple random sampling technique of respondents was 597 comprises over 358 male and 229 female teacher educators. One-way ANOVA was used to examine the numerical data using statistical test through SPSS 22 for exploring the hidden facts. Null hypothesis was accepted instead of Alternative hypothesis and explained that the gender of Teacher educators does not substantially impact their perceptions regarding their online teaching to the classes.
Keywords:
Teaching styles, Learning styles, Learners' Compatibility
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