Parameters for Textbook: Improving Quality of Primary Education

Mohammad Nabi and Muhammad Javed Iqbal
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Mohammad Nabi: Ph.D Scholar, Department of Education, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
Muhammad Javed Iqbal: Director Mass Education, Department of Education, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.

Global Social Sciences Review, 2018, vol. 3, issue 4, 187-200

Abstract: This research explores the parameters of quality textbook and the current status of 5th class textbooks. Textbook counts due to its importance in attaining required goals of quality education. Quality textbooks have the capacity to improve the required skills of learners and consequently support the improvement of quality education as quality education is mostly connected to students’ outcomes. A survey was conducted wherein officers of the Textbook Board Khyber Pakhtunkhwa participated and head teachers and teachers from public primary schools also took part. An interview was conducted for the Textbook Board officers to find out the parameters of quality textbook that improve the outcomes of the students. In this regard a questionnaire administered for head teachers and teachers to investigate the present status of 5th class textbook. 10 officers of Textbook Board, 281 primary school teachers and 256 head teachers were taken as sample from six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Keywords: Quality; Quality Education; Quality Textbook; Parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).13

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