Teaching Aptitude Among Prospective Pupil Teachers from Diverse Professional Background

Abstract

The study analyzed teaching aptitude of physical education pupil teachers. One hundred and thirty (130) pupil teachers pursuing Master of Physical Education (semester-4^th ,n=45) Bachelor of Physical Education (2year, semester-4^th,n=40) and Bachelor of Physical Education (4year integrated course,semester-8^th, n=45) were selected by using random sampling technique from the teacher training institutes located in Chandigarh. Age of subjects was ranged between 21 to 27 years. Teaching Aptitude Test(TAT) was developed by Gakhar, S.C.  and Dr. Rajnish (2004) was used to assess the teaching aptitude. Normality of data was verified by using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and  Shapiro-Wilk. Since the data didn’t follow a normal distribution, therefore, Kruskal–Wallis (H test) was applied. Post-hoc test was applied to see the degree and direction of differences, where ‘F’ ratio was found significant. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Findings with regard to sub-variables i.e. Interest towards students, teaching potential and current knowledge were found statistically significant. Post-hoc test revealed that Master degree pupil teachers demonstrated better on the sub-variables interest towards students, teaching potential and current knowledge, followed by Bachelor of Physical Education (2year), whereas, Bachelor of Physical Education (4year integrated course) scored relatively lower. However, insignificant differences were observed on the sub-variables i.e. Teaching profession, Social contact, Innovation regarding activity of school, Professional ethics among the groups in question. It is concluded that diverse educational background leads to positive transfer of training in the subsequent learning and facilitates the person to make easy and quick adaptation.