Satisfaction of Prospective Teachers and Teacher Educators about the Quality of Teacher Education Programs

Abstract

Present study was designed to compare the satisfaction level of prospective teachers and teacher educators regarding the quality of teachers' education programs. Population comprised of all teacher educators and prospective teachers of public and private teacher education institutions of Punjab and Islamabad, Pakistan. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select sample of 30 institution, 300 teacher educators and 890 prospective teachers from two strata, sector and teacher education program. Two research questionnaires were used for data collection. Results revealed that prospective teachers enrolled in Bachelor of Education (Honors) were dissatisfied with the institutional environment, practical work, assessment techniques and features of teacher education. Whereas prospective teachers enrolled in Bachelor of Education showed dissatisfaction with program duration. Results also indicated that teacher educators teaching at Bachelor of Education (Honors) were dissatisfied with physical resources, teachers' competencies, teaching strategies, assessment techniques, professional skills, appreciative features of programs and institutional efforts to raise quality of the programs. It is, therefore, recommended that teacher education institutions may improve the quality of both programs keeping in view the teacher educators and prospective teachers concerns about quality.