PASSIVE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS IN A CLASS ROOM SETTING - ARE TEACHERS THE REAL CULPRITS?
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Many high school and university teachers complain about the non-responsive, passive behavior of students in class. Students don?t appear to take interest in class room activities that not only negatively affects their own learning process (and ultimately grades) but also tends to decrease the confidence of a teacher regarding his/her teaching abilities. The current study was carried out in order to assess the potential causes of lack of interest among undergraduate (UG) and graduate (grad) students with chemistry as major subject. The study involved survey and / or interviews of 200 university UG and grad students; no distinction was made regarding the gender, origin /locality (rural/urban) and age of students. The same were however recorded to establish any quantitative relationships for future studies. The results of survey and/or interviews are presented here as qualitative study, purely based on self-reporting of issues by students regarding the problems in the education system and their own understanding of the possible causes.
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[Aeysha Sultan and Bukhtawar Sultan. (2017); PASSIVE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS IN A CLASS ROOM SETTING - ARE TEACHERS THE REAL CULPRITS? Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Nov). 19-28] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Department of Chemistry, University of Education Lahore, Faisalabad Campus
