Papers by Dr Muhammad Nadeem Anwar
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Emotional intelligence is an accumulation of many emotional intelligence competencies and these c... more Emotional intelligence is an accumulation of many emotional intelligence competencies and these competencies are generally found in people with different variations. Emotionally strong teachers impact teaching learning process in schools positively. The present study was conducted to find out the effects of emotional intelligence (EI) competencies of teachers on student-teacher relationship and student’s motivation at elementary level. Twenty five competencies of teachers were explored under five major domains i.e. emotional self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, social-skills and social-awareness. Goleman’s Emotional Competence Inventory (Boyatzis & Goleman, 2002) was used as a tool for data collection. Two questionnaires were developed by the researchers after review of related literature for measuring the student’s motivation and student-teacher relationship. For assuring the reliability of instrument, Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was calculated, which ranged from...
Online Submission, 2008
Collaborative learning is well suited to online learning environments built around threaded discu... more Collaborative learning is well suited to online learning environments built around threaded discussion. Research frameworks have developed around these practices providing methodological guidance for examining learning as a collective endeavor within the boundaries of a course. Understanding how to use the powerful learning techniques involved in collaborative learning in an online context is imperative. In this article, the focus is based on the importance of collaboration in online instructions. The major concerns are centering on the following questions: What is Collaboration? Why choose collaboration as a strategy? What collaboration tools are commonly used online? This paper will also examine the techniques used to facilitate good collaboration and the proper implementation of collaborative online discussions.
Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to ... more Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion. The purpose of this descriptive survey was to explore the Decision making practices in administrative and academic matters in the universities of Pakistan. A sample of nineteen universities was selected by applying stratified random sampling technique. The respondents, i-e members of university bodies; teachers and administrative officers were selected randomly. Three questionnaires constructed on Likert's fivepoint scale were used for data collection. Data was tabulated and analyzed by using the F-ratio and Chi-square. The survey results revealed that overall decision-making practices in the universities were found unsatisfactory and, most of the decisions were made without application of management decision-making techniques.
Global Citizenship Education in Pakistan: Awareness, Attitude and Challenges
Global Educational Studies Review
This study was attempted to analyze teacher's awareness, attitude and challenges in implement... more This study was attempted to analyze teacher's awareness, attitude and challenges in implementing Global Citizenship Education in Pakistan. A questionnaire was constructed and filled by teachers of ten public sector universities of Punjab. Perceptions of two hundred and thirty-five teachers were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings were highlighting that teachers showed a low level of awareness towards global citizenship education; however positive attitude towards global citizenship education was counted. Implementation of GCE is essential in order to prepare a civilized generation. However, there are some challenges teachers have encountered in implementing Global Citizenship Education in higher education institutions, such as inadequate environment, no provision in education police to teach it as a subject and lack of training regarding GCE. In order to promote GCE in Pakistan, the government may adopt the Canadian/USA/Australian or England roadmap or may use ma...
This study aimed at to assess the creative thinking abilities of undergraduate university student... more This study aimed at to assess the creative thinking abilities of undergraduate university students through the lens of some selected demographical variables. Data were analyzed of 200 students who have sampled purposively as per the categorical variables under study. Creative thinking was measured by self-developed questionnaire. The statistical analysis revealed a significant relationship between the demographic variables and creative thinking. Parental education contributes the highest, whereas program selection has the lowest contribution in developing creative thinking. The magnitude of the gender and residential area are significantly predicting creative thinking. Findings clearly indicated that some selected demographic variables such gender, parent education, residential location and program selection are predictors of creative thinking.
Exploration of Transformational Leadership Practices and its Effect on Performance of Private Colleges: Mediating Role of Teachers’ Retention
Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 2021
Role of National Education Policy-2009 and National Professional Standards for Teachers in Developing Teachers' Professionalism
The main aim of this research is to better understand and draw perceptions of course writers and ... more The main aim of this research is to better understand and draw perceptions of course writers and course coordinators towards the process of developing distance learning material. For developing good self-instructional material cooperative efforts among course development personnel are essential. The study indicates the areas where contradiction is found among perceptions of a sample of seventy course coordinators and seventy course writes of Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan through a self developed questionnaire covering preparation, implementation and execution aspects of course development process.
Introduction The period of examination is considered an extremely anxious time. Anxiety can cause... more Introduction The period of examination is considered an extremely anxious time. Anxiety can cause medical problems or reduce the efficiency of exam performance. Of course, most people have some anxiety reaction to examinations. Examination anxiety is a combination of physiological over-arousal, tension and somatic symptoms, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that occur before or during test situations. According to Phillips, Martin, and Myers (1972) anxiety is reaction of different environmental factors and emotionality and cognition are two basic sub components of test anxiety. Cognitive component causes worry which reduces attention, concentration and information processing process while emotionality is related to physical symptoms or physical reactions as horror of examination. Researches supported that cognitive element was more contributing factor of lower academic achievement among adolescent (Bandlos, Yates, & Thorndike-Christ, 1995; Williams, 1991...
Pakistan is lagging behind in education in this global world. To speed up the pace of work to ach... more Pakistan is lagging behind in education in this global world. To speed up the pace of work to achieve 100% literacy rate is a burning issue for the educationists. The failure of the public sector delivery of education system is adding fuel to the fire and educational innovations are the need of the hour. The very inception of Punjab Education Foundation is a step forward in this regard. Foundation Assisted Schools is the flagship program of Punjab Education Foundation under which assistance is provided to poor strata of society in the province of Punjab through Public-Private Partnership. This study aimed at analyzing whether the Foundation Assisted Schools Program has been successful in improving the quality of schools in their service delivery to the deserving students across the Punjab. The purpose was accomplished by analyzing the enrolment rate, grade transition and survival rate of respective pupil cohort of schools before and after becoming Foundation Assisted School partners...
TIJ's Research Journal of Social Science & Management - RJSSM, 2016
Problem Statement: Servant leadership is the natural feeling that one has of desiring to serve ot... more Problem Statement: Servant leadership is the natural feeling that one has of desiring to serve others. There are different styles of leadership and servant leadership is pillar to succeed in today’s challenging climate and to meet demands of the work place. Hence current study will address the need by exploring multiple indicators of servant leadership and investigate servant leadership and its impact on the followers’ level of organizational citizenship behavior and school performance. Purpose of the Study: This study sought to determine the relationship between servant leadership style and school performance. This study also examines the mediating role of teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior between school performance and servant leadership. Methods: The study was designed as cross-sectional relational survey. Through the random sampling technique, data were collected from 813 (i-e 272 head-teachers and 561 teachers) from public secondary within Punjab province. For data ...
In child friendly environment students feel motivation and readiness for learning. Staff members ... more In child friendly environment students feel motivation and readiness for learning. Staff members are friendly. They welcome children to school and attend to all their health and safety needs. The present research report is about the success of child friendly schools programs through a comparison of learning environment of child friendly schools with conventional schools. Data was collected from a sample of 480 students out of which 240 were from child friendly schools and 240 from conventional schools, through a questionnaire. Outcomes of the research exposed, on whole, that learning environment of child friendly schools was found better than conventional schools. Moreover, learning environment of child friendly schools for boys as well as girls were also appeared sound than conventional schools. While comparing academic performance of conventional and child friendly schools, it was found that academic performance of child friendly schools was better as compared with conventional sc...
An Examination of Teaching Aptitude of Teachers Working at Primary Level: Demographic differences
Primary education is no doubt a cornerstone of general education and to expect success at seconda... more Primary education is no doubt a cornerstone of general education and to expect success at secondary and higher level. Without viable teaching aptitude, success will be merely a wishful thinking; therefore, the purpose of the present study was to explore the teaching aptitude of teachers working in primary schools and to investigate demographic differences. A total number of 600 teachers participated in this study. A self-developed instrument was used to measure teaching aptitude of teachers after pilot testing. Cronbach"s alpha was used to determine the reliability coefficient (i-e 0.79). The results revealed that under the established norms, overall high teaching aptitude was found among primary teachers. Among the regions of Punjab, Southern Punjab"s teachers were significantly low in their teaching aptitude. However, the teaching aptitude was found to be changed when participants were examined demographically. The average aptitude was revealed low among the teachers wor...
Compatibility of Leadership Styles with Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Conflict Management Strategies
Global Educational Studies Review
Conflict among leaders and subordinates is natural meanwhile same is observed among headteachers ... more Conflict among leaders and subordinates is natural meanwhile same is observed among headteachers and teachers; if it is not managed appropriately can create an adverse impact on organizational climate and subsequently on performance. A plethora of literature looked at the leadership styles that have direct/indirect influence on cooperative and non-cooperative conflict management practices. The present study examines the compatibility between leadership styles and cooperative and non-cooperative conflict management strategies of the secondary schools in Punjab. 360 randomly selected head teachers participated in this study. Two questionnaires were used, one for leadership styles and the other for cooperative and non-cooperative conflict management strategies. The results indicated that cooperative strategies of conflict management such as accommodation, collaboration and compromising are much helpful in a place where democratic leadership style was being practised, and authoritative ...
Self-Efficacy of Formally and Non-Formally Trained Public Sector Teachers
Human development is the basis for national and economic development, and education is key to hum... more Human development is the basis for national and economic development, and education is key to human development. Reform efforts have been enforced in every country through mandates and regulations to improve education to prepare all students to compete in a global ...
Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC), 2010
The present study examines anxiety in English undergraduate classes with regard to the type of si... more The present study examines anxiety in English undergraduate classes with regard to the type of situations that provoke anxiety during different stages of the learning process and the relationship of anxiety with learners’ achievement. Participants of the study include 149 undergraduates enrolled in second and sixth semester of different departments of University of Sargodha who are learning English as a foreign language. The questionnaire used in this study is the abbreviated form of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). An inventory is also used to determine different situations that provoke anxiety. Finally, students’ GPA in English classes is taken to find its relationship with language anxiety. The results show that language anxiety and achievement are negatively related to each other. It is also found that female students are lessanxious in learning English as a foreign language than male students. ‘Speaking in front of others’ is rated as the biggest cause of anxie...
Journal of Diversity Management (JDM), 2011
Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to ... more Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes (cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion. The purpose of this descriptive survey was to explore the Decision making practices in administrative and academic matters in the universities of Pakistan. A sample of nineteen universities was selected by applying stratified random sampling technique. The respondents, i-e members of university bodies; teachers and administrative officers were selected randomly. Three questionnaires constructed on Likerts five-point scale were used for data collection. Data was tabulated and analyzed by using the F-ratio and Chi-square. The survey results revealed that overall decision-making practices in the universities were found unsatisfactory and, most of the decisions were made without application of management decision-making techniques.
Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC), 2010
Resilience is the ability to succeed despite barriers that make it difficult for the students to ... more Resilience is the ability to succeed despite barriers that make it difficult for the students to succeed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between resilience and academic achievement of secondary level students of Gujranwala, Pakistan. A Resilience scale was used to collect data. The sample consisted of 127 secondary students, including 52 boys and 75 girls. The data revealed that there was no association between resilience and achievement as measured through marks obtained in 10th grade. The boys are more resilient than girls at the secondary level in Pakistan.
Creative thinking is an important human characteristic. It is the best thought as a process, requ... more Creative thinking is an important human characteristic. It is the best thought as a process, requiring a mixture of ingredients, including personality traits, abilities and skills. This article compares the differences in creative thinking abilities between students with high and low levels of academic achievements. A total number of 208 secondary school students participated in this study. Two groups were formulated i-e high achievers (n=104) and low achievers (n=104). Analysis of data was done using t-test for independent sample to estimate the comparison at 0.05 levels. A self developed instrument was used to measure the creative thinking potential. Results of the study revealed that there was no difference between high achievers and low achievers in terms of creative thinking abilities. However, girls and the students belonging to urban areas found better in their creative thinking.
Evaluative Study of Management Techniques Used in Administrative and Academic Decision-Making in Universities
The higher education sub-sector of the entire education system is very important and plays pivota... more The higher education sub-sector of the entire education system is very important and plays pivotal role in the all walks of life. Quality in the universities cannot be orchestrated without charismatic and effective administration doubled with management decision-making techniques. Every university has its own bodies that shape the university organization and make decision such as the senate, the syndicated, Academic Council, the selection Board, the Board of Advance Study & Research, the Finance and planning committee etc. as the effective functioning of university is absolute and entire responsibility of these bodies, therefore, high leveled decision-making ability and techniques for selection of best course of action are expected from them. The study was aimed at to evaluated the management techniques used in administrative and academic decision-making in universities of Pakistan. The main objectives of the study were (a)to identify management techniques, which are used in adminis...
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