Impact of Constructive Pedagogy on Students Academic Achievements at Secondary School Level in Kotli AJ&K

Abstract

Constructivism represents one of the big ideas in education. Its implications for how teachers teach and learn to teach are enormous.The purpose of this research study was to explore teachers’ perception regarding pedagogy based on constructive paradigm for students learning and to find out the impact of constructive pedagogy on students’ academic achievements. The study was descriptive in nature and quantitative research design was used. Government secondary schools from Kotli were the population of this research. Simple random sampling technique was used and 20% sample was randomly selected from the aforementioned population. The study is delimited to public secondary schools of district Kotli. For pilot testing process forty teachers were randomly selected and these teachers were also included in final study. The data was collected through five point Likert scale questionnaires and analyzed by using SPSS software. Major conclusions of the study were; i) constructivist pedagogy are effective inenhancing the students learning, ii) students’ decision making ability could be improved through constructivist pedagogy, ii) there was a positive relationship between constructive pedagogy and students learning and academic achievement while major recommendations were; teachers should adopt strategies that involve constructivist principles in order to improve students’ learning and academic achievements and teachers should provide appropriate guidance to their students in this regards.