A Comparative Study of Teacher Educator’s Teaching Effectiveness of B.Ed. Institutions of Delhi (India)

Abstract

Teacher education is a tri-polar process that includes teacher educators, student teachers, and the environment i.e. teaching material. Teacher educators belongs to heterogeneous group as they come from different background and work in different setting in terms of type of institutions, teaching subjects and gender. Present study attempts to explore the teaching effectiveness ofteacher educator on the basis of their type of institutions, gender and subject of teaching. The population comprises all the teacher educators of B.Ed. Institutions of Delhi. The stratified sampling technique applied to take samples. The teaching effectiveness of teacher educators was assessed by their student teachers. The self-constructed Teacher educator's Teaching Effectiveness scale (TETES) was used measures the Teaching Effectiveness of teacher educators.6 experts in the field of teacher education established the content validity of the scale with 54 items. The reliability of the teaching effectiveness scale was established by Test-Retest method (0.85), Split-half method (0.79) and byCronbach’sAlpha (0.926).The result shows that moderate level of teaching effectiveness was found and there wasno significant difference in teacher educators' teaching effectiveness to their type of institutions, gender, and teaching subject except in case of student teacher relation and use of ICT. The comparison of Teaching Effectiveness of teacher educators with respect to type of institutions, gender, and subject of teaching provided a base to understand the present situation of teacher education institutions in Delhi.