What is aptitude?

Are the future teachers apt for teaching? Teachers’ Aptitude TestingComparative Analysis:Rural-UrbanInter-stateMale-Female

WHAT IS APTITUDE? IntelligencePersonalityAchievement Exam

• “condition or set of characteristics regarded as symptomatic of an individual’s ability to acquire to acquire training in some (usually specified) knowledge, skill, or set of responses such as the ability to speak a language, to produce music etc.”

Teaching Aptitude predicts

• Effectiveness• Competency• Students’ achievement• IQ

Input System OutputTeachers Schools Students’

Outcomes

Choice of test

Choice of Test

Occupational Aptitude Survey Vs.

Teaching Aptitude test battery• ->Mental Ability• ->Attitude Towards Children• ->Interest in profession• ->Professional Information• ->Adaptability

What are DIETs?

• District Institutes of Education and Training

Teacher Training Institutes, set up under National Policy on Education ‘86

Focus on1.Resource Support2.Training3.Action Research

Are the future teachers really apt to teach?A Case Analysis: DIET, Gurgaon

DIET, Gurgaon

Sample Size: 154

Instrument: Teaching Aptitude Test Battery by Singh and Sharma

Methodology: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

More PayNo Incentive for performance; No accountabilityHindi Speaking PopulationJob SecurityModelingTeaching MotiveTo give back to where I come from

DIET, Gurgaon: Academic Achievement

Admission on Merit; Cut off: 80%Field Visit: Efficient FunctioningInterview Answers: “Proud to be in DIET, Gurgaon”

-2.01 -1.25 -0.50 0 0.50 1.25 2

(z scores)

Y AXIS1 UNIT=20 STUDENTS

Frequency Distribution of TEACHING APTITUDE of Students of DIET, Gurgaon

Aptitude is positively correlated with Academic Achievement. Is it?

SCORES IN SUB AREAS• MENTAL ABILITY• ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHILDREN• ADAPTABILITY• PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION• INTEREST IN PROFESSION

Frequency Distribution of Mental Ability of Students of DIET, Gurgaon

What is the kind of teacher training in Haryana’s one of the best DIETs?

Does achievement tests in India make you able?

If teachers aren’t mentally able, how will they teach the children?

Mean: 16.25S.D: 2.09

NEGATIVE SKEWNESS

1ST VS. 2ND YEAR STUDENTS•More 2nd years in the above average range OF Teaching Aptitude•But no such trend in Mental Ability.

Subjects Taught in D ed.

-> Concentrated Experience (Lack of multiplicity of experiences)Study of Child Psychology and Teacher Function

“Coaching” Vs. Social Desirability

Vs. “Reality”-> TET Coaching couldn’t affect Mental Ability

•Education Philosophy – Education in Emerging India•Education Psychology•Teacher Function (Role of teachers in primary education)•Hindi•English•Mathematics •Social Science (EVS I)•Science (EVS II)•Physical Education (Games)•Art Education

BOYSVS.

GIRLS

TEACHING APTITUDE of boys and girls

FemaleMale

Girls: Boys Ratio=1: 5

Average:Female: 82.01Male: 81.84

MENTAL ABILITY of boys and girls

BOYS > GIRLSAre they?

Why?

Why?

?

Male Vs. FemalePart Scores

Girls>BoysInterest in ProfessionProfessional Information

Boys>Girls Mental AbilityAdaptability

BOYS=GIRLSInterest in Profession

To Do• Rural-Urban Comparative Study; • Inter-state Comparative Study; • Male-Female Comparative Study; • Correlation between Aptitude and Achievement

• ANSWER: ARE THE TEACHERS REALLY APT TO TEACH?

• RECOMMENDATIONS: POLICY REFORMS

1.RTE’S TET: IS IT THE BEST INSTRUMENT?2.TEACHING AS LEADERSHIP