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Parameters for Textbook: Improving Quality of Primary Education

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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.)

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.

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  • Mohammad Nabi & Muhammad Javed Iqbal, 2018. "Parameters for Textbook: Improving Quality of Primary Education," Global Social Sciences Review, Humanity Only, vol. 3(4), pages 187-200, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gss:journl:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:187-200
    DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).13
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    Keywords

    Quality; Quality Education; Quality Textbook; Parameters;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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